The City Heights Business Association has removed some of the trash cans it installed years ago, getting mixed reactions from business owners along University Avenue.
. But the association started removing them in 2019. Now, several dozen are sitting empty in a city-owned lot.City Heights Business Association trash cans sit in an empty lot on University Avenue, Feb. 16, 2022.
“Some of the businesses complained about the smell of trash going into their stores. Others complained about those trash cans getting vandalized and having them, the business owners, be the ones dealing with the mess left behind by transients or vandals,” he said. “Others complained about their own neighbors, either residents or business owners abusing those trash cans.”One of the business owners who complained is Jose Nuño of La Surtidora.
For Diaz, the situation is different. He now has to clean the trash around his storefront and says he never used to have to do that when trash cans were nearby.
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