EAU CLAIRE (WQOW) – On this edition of You Ask, We Answer, Pete wants to know if furniture is allowed on the curb.
The City of Eau Claire’s Neighborhood Services division handles most nuisance code violations. Supervisor Phil Lubke said it’s against city ordinance to leave furniture on the curb. Additionally, overflowing trash cans are a violation.
According to Lubke, the city expects that residents have coordinated with their trash haulers to pickup their curbside furniture — but if that’s not the case — that’s when Neighborhood Services gets involved.
“If furniture is out longer than a certain period of time, of course neighbors are going to start calling and complaining about it,” Lubke said. “Then the furniture starts to deteriorate, it attracts rodents and pests and it’s not meant to be stored outside, so then I get a call. Then I have to go and talk to the homeowner or the tenants and get a plan in place.”
While ordinance violations can lead to fines, Lubke said the goal is to work with residents to solve the sanitation issues. To report a violation there’s a couple options, calling the City of Eau Claire at 715-839-4902 is one option, the other is to use the City of Eau Claire’s .
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