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Residents urge ban on foot traffic through service alleys as council weighs committee review
Summary
Speakers at North College Hill’s May 4 council meeting urged an ordinance to limit pedestrian access to service alleys to curb dumping, tagging and unsafe youth gatherings; council members referred the idea to City Community Development & Recreation and Public Safety committees for follow-up.
Miss V, a community worker who said she is "commonly known by Miss V," told the council the alley behind the bakery between Galbraith and Betts (referred to in testimony as Alley B and Alley 2) suffers "unsanitary and unsafe conditions" including illegal dumping, tagging, fights and at least one robbery she described as years old.
"I use it to leverage my property taxes and I win," Miss V said, describing repeated break‑in attempts at her property and pallets, sofas and other debris stacked in the alley. She asked the city to consider "an ordinance to disallow usage of the alley — no pedestrian traffic" and to coordinate…
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