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Neighborhood Noise Complaints (Excessive Parties)

Sunday, September 11th, 2011

A Norwalk resident e-mailed the regarding neighborhood noise problem:

I realize the economy has been bad for the last couple of years, so when more and more neighbors started having night time parties around here on a regular basis…we assumed that was why.

Well, it seems to be a weekly thing now. So much cheaper to turn your home into a nightclub. Booze, under-aged drinkers, cars parked everywhere and live bands! If it’s not a Mariache Band then it’s a live some kind of band and when they are done, they start the DJ. By then everyone is drunk as a skunk and they crank it up a little louder about every 15 minutes. Eventually the band starts singing and playing again.

This constant ‘boomp-boomp-boomp’ pounding my windows and eventually my head goes on from as early as 5pm to 2 or 3 am. Call the Norwalk Sheriff and 8 out of 10 times, they will say, it may take awhile because there’s other emergencies going on. If they do show up to have them turn down the noise, it’s back up within an hour.

If we can only have a limited number of yard sales a year- how much more annoying is it for everyone to listen to these parties going on from Fri Sat and Sun every weekend without regard to neighbors, even those living 2 blocks away, if they are disturbing their peace, or if their children are sleeping, or if someone is sick, has to work or want to get up for church Sunday!

We need a system that everyone knows about. Only so many parties, control how loud it gets, no under aged drinking, and if the police comes and asks you to turn it down- keep it down. It’s a residential neighborhood!!! Not zoned for a night club every flipping weekend. Doesn’t anyone care about their own neighbors anymore-that we are forced to call the police on them to just get some peace & respect? Something MUST be done SOON because some neighbors aren’t going to be so patient any more.

If you are a Norwalk homeowner and you are experiencing similar problems in your neighborhood, I urge you to write and address your concerns to the following City Councilmembers:

    Mayor – Mike Mendez
    Vice Mayor – Cheri Kelley
    Councilmember – Marcel Rodarte
    Councilmember – Leonard Shryock
    Councilmember – Luigi Vernola

And also visit the “Public Safety Commission” meeting to voice your concern(s). You will be heard.

PUBLIC SAFETY COMMISSION
Meets 1st Monday, 6:00 p.m., Council Chambers
Advises the City Council regarding public safety problems in the community, including (but not limited to) earthquake and disaster preparedness, emergency management, street crossing, child abuse and neighborhood watch.

Please continue to send me e-mails that you would like to share on NorwalkCity.com, thank you.

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Homebuying Program Wait List Deadline

Saturday, September 25th, 2010

The City of Norwalk is reopening a waiting list for potential first-time homebuyers interested in purchasing a single-family house in Norwalk. To be included on the waiting list, buyers must submit a completed application to the Housing Authority by 5 p.m. on Friday, October 8. Applications are available for pick up at the Housing Authority located at 12035 Firestone Blvd. and for download at www.ci.norwalk.ca.us.

For this program, the City of Norwalk is purchasing foreclosed and abandoned homes, rehabilitating them, and reselling them to qualified low-income buyers. Only a limited number of homes will be available for purchase. Applications received by October 8 will be entered into a lottery. Norwalk residents will receive preference on the waiting list. Applicants are required to make a minimum 1 percent down payment and acquire a 30-year fixed rate mortgage from a lending institution of their choosing.

The Homebuying Program is made possible by a grant from the Neighborhood Stabilization Program as part of the economic stimulus act. The purpose of the grant is to stabilize communities that have suffered from foreclosures and abandonment through the purchase and redevelopment of foreclosed and abandoned homes and residential properties.

For more information about the Homebuying Program, please call the Housing Authority at (562) 929-5588.

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Neighbor Vandalism

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

It started a few years ago during the time when my brother lived with me in Norwalk. Our neighborhood street was safe or so I thought. Before my family moved in into Norwalk, our former neighborhood was much safer and everyone respected their neighbor’s property, privacy, and noise level.

But things were lot different here in Norwalk. I noticed that there were more rental houses which brought in more than the average two to three vehicles per households into the streets. Some neighbors in my street had five to seven vehicles in one household! You read that right, five to seven vehicles. Some were just rental properties and others had all their relatives living together in one place.

On one evening, there were two vehicles parked in front of my house street curve so my brother parked his vehicle across the street. He told me that two neighbors were out on their front yard drinking beer and chatting. Then the homeowner where my brother parked his car said not to park your car there. Brother replied that there was no other parking spaces available. The following morning, a beer cardboard was placed on the car’s windshield with a big X marked on it. My brother should have checked his car if there was any intentional vandalism on his car.

Couple weeks forward, my mother had to park her car to on the same curb, and right when she was leaving the vehicle and heading towards the house, that homeowner immediately came out with a broom and started sweeping right towards my mother’s car. Outrageous! That man obviously had bad intentions. My mother had to re-park her car further away.

At another time, I parked my car in front of one of another neighbor only to find that the homeowner turned on his lawn sprinkler unit right next to my car! His sprinkler was spraying water unto my wheel’s rotor on the rear right wheel. I reparked my vehicle elsewhere.

It is frustrating to have this type of neighbors that who knows when they will vandalize your private property. I can’t monitor their actions or have time to record video footage of their vandalism.

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