Dearborn Public Service Days Begin April 4
Dearborn's Public Service Days begin April 4 and continue each week through Dec. 2.
Dearborn’s Public Service Days – established as a way to keep our neighborhoods well-maintained – begin April 4 and will occur every week through Dec. 2, which means parked vehicles must be off streets between 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. during each neighborhood’s trash collection day.
Vehicles left on the street during Public Service Days will be ticketed. Vehicles in a driveway may be parked across the public sidewalk without penalty, but city officials say parking on the grass is always prohibited.
Public Service Days are the same day as trash collection day in a neighborhood. On these days, city crews provide neighborhoods with services like street-sweeping, loose leaf collection, tree trimming, and sewer maintenance.
Signs in every neighborhood alert drivers to the Public Service Days applicable on the surrounding blocks.
Check www.cityofdearborn.org or call 313.943.2886 for general information on Public Service Days.
For parking issues related to Public Service Days, call 313.943.2276.
The free 2011 City of Dearborn Calendar, which is available at the City’s libraries and City Hall, is also handy for additional information. Page 30 of the City Calendar has more details, as well as a map of Public Service Days/Trash Collection Days.
April 9th, 2011 at 8:23 am
What do I know?
I do not have a big driveway … but Public Service Days are not usually an issue for my family because of our schedule. On occasion, it has been an issue when I am having company over on our PSD … however, I have worked around it by asking neighbors who I know will be at work if I can use their driveways. It just seems to me that the people who are complaining about driveway issues aren’t trying to find a solution … like asking a neighbor for use of their driveway … they are just complaining.
However, all that being said, I do have to say that I feel that in these financially difficult times … there are better uses of our tax dollars than street sweeping.
April 9th, 2011 at 8:50 am
Estate and yard sales should be exempt otherwise it would drive even more people out of our city. Again it isn’t fair to the people with a Friday trash day since that’s the day most of the sales start. Also, why give Friday the day when more people are home and more people have people visiting and there are yard and estate sales going on to the area which has the smallest houses and smallest driveways and the worst parking problems? It doesn’t make sense. I wish some of you who are for this program could see how it is to not have parking on your whole street for the whole day on Fridays.
April 9th, 2011 at 11:21 am
Bored, thanks for the idea, but our neighbors are mostly retired and don’t even like us to park in front of their house (which we don’t) let alone in their driveway. There is always the problem that if an emergency arises and we are out on a walk or away in someone else’s car, they will be blocked in the driveway. Looking in our half of the block there is not one driveway that doesn’t get used all day that we could use. Also some of the fussier people are worried about oil or other fluid leakage in their driveways.
I do agree that with the financial times being so difficult it is a shame we have to put up with being blocked in our own driveway just because someone is too lazy to go out and pick up a candy wrapper that has landed in front of their house.
I’m telling you it has been a real problem and the neighbors are not willing to have us blocking up their driveways. Especially our teenagers who are new drivers. I would just as well keep our own vehicles on our own property and clean it myself. I don’t understand why our city won’t let me do this. I think it is way more responsible than blocking up a neighbors driveway. And I pick up our trash and sweep and hose down my sidewalks myself all the time. All I want to do is exist on my own little piece of property and not bother anybody else.
Oh, and I moved my car (that is usually on the street) 4 times the other day to let people out and the sweeper never came and the trash was picked up by 10:30.
I do appreciate your idea, but it just wouldn’t work here.
April 9th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
That would be so unfair if someone going to a yard sale or shopping at a store got a ticket here. There are no signs and I bet they would never be back. Plus it isn’t fair to the homeowners.
It seems these things should have been thought through before spending all the money to buy the extra vehicles and trucks and whatever other expenses go along with having the service days.
I also think that the same people who are so in favor of the days are the same people who would tell their neighbors no if they asked to park in their driveways.
I know I wouldn’t want my neighbors kids racing up and down my driveway and stepping on my downspouts and flowers while I wasn’t home. I think blocking up your neighbors driveway is just asking for more trouble.
April 9th, 2011 at 6:12 pm
The major problem facing Dearborn and other cities accustomed to being fueled by the obscene amount of monies pouring into their coffers during the automotive heydays is the lack of political leadership. Anyone can lead a city, county, state, or even a country when the dollars are rolling in. It takes someone more skilled than those who are lunching off the status quo gravy train to offer real solutions. Much easier to sit on their haunches and dictate more taxes for fewer services. A pox on them all..
April 10th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
I disagree with the person who thinks the economic situation should have something to do with whether the city sweeps the streets. This is exactly WHY the city should keep sweeping and ticketing. With all the rental houses in town now it’s more important than ever that standards are kept high. Let a neighborhood start looking bad and the rest of the area follows. If this is a way to keep cars from sitting on the street for a week without moving, I’m all for it.
April 11th, 2011 at 4:55 pm
There are no full-time parking enforcement officers, they are all part-time and don’t receive any overtime or city benefits just like most of our field inspectors.
April 11th, 2011 at 9:14 pm
Just making a point, since it sounds like you are on the inside, can you tell me why tickets are written later in the day after the streets are swept? I have NEVER seen them come around and do anything else after the sweeping and trash pick up. Would it be possible to discontinue to ticket later in the day since you are all part time? I thought that was just done for something to do in the later part of an 8 hour shift.
April 12th, 2011 at 9:56 pm
Well, I hope you are all enjoying your clean streets. I just saw an article that stated that they are planning on closing some of the branch libraries and small pools. Maybe they can spend several hundred thousand more dollars and buy more street sweepers and clean them twice a week now.
April 13th, 2011 at 9:03 am
As nice as the streets look cleaned, I think not being able to park on your street one day a week will deter people from moving here. It’s just not worth the hassle. There are many places where you can go and park all day every day at your home and still manage to have clean streets.
Now, having a pool park and library walking distance from your home, that would attract people to buy here and that’s what they want to do away with, neighborhood pools and libraries. You can move to ANY city and find one big pool or library in the middle of town that everyone has to drive to. But the small neighborhood pools and libraries are what made Dearborn special. You take that away and we have nothing special here. Oh yes I forgot clean streets and a stack of parking tickets for residents and their guests.