Code enforcers, electrical inspectors and cable television technicians blitzed the western edge of Fat City on Wednesday. They tagged illegally parked cars and ones with expired registrations and sealed up faulty electrical meters. It was the latest in a series of periodic neighborhood sweeps that Jefferson Parish officials began in the months after Hurricane Katrina to combat blight. This...
Code enforcers, electrical inspectors and cable television technicians blitzed the western edge of Fat City on Wednesday. They tagged illegally parked cars and ones with expired registrations and sealed up faulty electrical meters.
It was the latest in a series of periodic neighborhood sweeps that Jefferson Parish officials began in the months after Hurricane Katrina to combat blight. This one focused on the Metairie streets between West Esplanade Avenue and Veterans Memorial Boulevard, Edenborn Avenue and Neyrey Drive.
Code Enforcement inspector Ashley Roberts cited a trailer with an improper registration sticker at an apartment complex in the 3700 block of Olney Street and a van parked on the public right of way. Entergy Louisiana investigators Kirk Derokey and Arthur Sutton found an unsealed electrical meter on the building and resealed it.
Around the corner in the 3700 block of Simone Gardens Drive, Roberts discovered a leaking water faucet on the exterior wall of another apartment building and, judging from the aroma nearby, leaking sewage under the building.
Nearby, she put a violation sticker on a vehicle with an expired temporary license plate.
Code Enforcement inspector Ashley Roberts photographs a vehicle Wednesday in the 3700 block of Simone Gardens Drive in Metairie. Cars and trucks, it seems, are the most common targets of the inspections.
"We can write up the building, and they fix it and it lasts a while," Roberts said. "But you always have vehicles coming and going."
(See update for total citations.)