“719.08. Location and maintenance of benches; specifications.
(d) No bench shall be maintained in any alley nor at any location where the distance from the face of the curb to the property line is less than ten feet unless the Commissioner of Building Inspection and Code Enforcement in his written approval of the application finds that to maintain a bench at such location is in the public interest. Each such courtesy bench shall be installed parallel to the curb and set back approximately eighteen inches from the face of the curb except as may be otherwise permitted by the Commissioner of Building Inspection and Code Enforcement and each bench shall further conform with the requirements established by such Commissioner with all respect to safety. Benches shall be kept at all times in a neat, clean and usable condition and ice and snow shall be removed from the benches and the vicinity thereof in such manner that each bench shall be accessible at all times.”

“clean and usable condition and ice and snow shall be removed from the benches and the vicinity thereof in such manner that each bench shall be accessible at all times.”

Really…..hhhhmmmm who enforces this? Maybe Mr. Schwartz can motivate the professionals in the offices to get the bus stops cleaned up, maybe…I have written to the Neighborhoods Department and the Mayor has been cc’d.

It’s just dandy to have Pride…

Further down Sylvania sidewalks are unshoveled at many commercial businesses those that are still in business and those that are not.

The Miracle Mile shopping center sidewalks are unshoveled….

I am making note of them on the Neighborhood Concerns blog to point out inequity with telling citizen to do as we do but do as we do.

Well, then I guess you would not be prideful, now then, would ya?

It is not set in stone as in regulations per se about the benches but it would seem that the ordinance cited would be somehow related to a trash dumping or some such ordinance and as I do not know and would like to know I will pose the question and see what the response is. The Neighborhood Departments staff and me are old friends, their favorite complainer and only unpaid and unofficial inspector, theirs is a tough job but some citizen has to do it.

Excuse my French but, No way Jose’…

I have no financial interest in that “business,” so the “business” owner should be liable…

Q. Does Toledo license and/or regulate these “business” locations or do the “businesses” merely donate regularly to the mayor’s campaign fund?

Thomas Kroma told me that the benches are placed there by an advertising company and the city does have the resources to clean up the benches and garbage that is dumped there and it has been a loosely held rule that land abutters would clean the area but not a rule set in stone

Way to go indeed. There is advertising dollars and I for one do not think that they will go away.

No quite the contrary they will be cleaned up and kept clean and not dumping grounds for fast food wrappers and out bags of trash, which I have documented with photos on my blog.

You can either search using “courtesy” or go to:

PART SEVEN – BUSINESS REGULATION CODE
TITLE ONE – Business Regulation Generally
CHAPTER 719 Courtesy Benches