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RandySF

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Mon Oct 14, 2024, 11:57 PM Oct 14

NYC ballot measure would expand trash pickup -- and street vendor crackdowns

Mayor Eric Adams will ask New Yorkers this November to grant him sweeping new authority to expand his trash revolution.

A question on the back of voters’ ballots asks whether to expand the sanitation department’s enforcement of cleanliness rules in public spaces and its ability to clear out unlicensed street vendors.

The proposal would codify the sanitation department’s responsibility to clean areas that fall out of the agency’s jurisdiction, like city highways, neglected medians and small plots of green space. It would also strengthen the department's responsibility to containerize waste across the five boroughs, a signature Adams policy that he's dubbed a "trash revolution." The proposal also includes language that would underline the department’s ability to enforce street vending rules in city parks.

“Voting ’Yes’ will expand and clarify the Department of Sanitation's power to clean streets and other City property and require disposal of waste in containers. Voting ‘No’ leaves law unchanged,” reads the text of the ballot proposal.



https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-ballot-measure-would-expand-trash-pickup-and-street-vendor-crackdowns

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NYC ballot measure would expand trash pickup -- and street vendor crackdowns (Original Post) RandySF Oct 14 OP
I dont think any ballot measuresby him are OK IbogaProject Oct 14 #1

IbogaProject

(3,774 posts)
1. I dont think any ballot measuresby him are OK
Mon Oct 14, 2024, 11:59 PM
Oct 14

I've heard they are all power grabsby the Mayor.

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