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Residents urge action on parking, dumping and nuisance bar during public comment

Chester City Council · March 11, 2026
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Summary

Residents told council about blocked driveways, abandoned cars, dumping under rail lines and missing street signs; a neighborhood block-captain cleanup program offered to help. Councilors and police were asked to follow up.

Several Chester residents used the public-comment period March 11 to press the city for enforcement and neighborhood support on parking, dumping and blight.

Sherry, who lives on Seventh and Hardwick, described a nearby bar she called a nuisance that she said routinely blocks her driveway and generates congestion: "They park right in front of my house" she said, calling for residential or tow-zone signage. The mayor and…

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