Yes, there is some piling-on going on with routine maintenance of property and that is going to overload the process.
In my community, the homeowner with the largest amount of loose debris just happens to be on the lot where some shady things have transpired with the adjoining HOA property. Pretty obvious that it is emblematic of the good ole boy backwater deals that have been going on around here.
The city has been very good to those of us who have bagged the yard trash. But those who have left the tree cutting in piles, well, it seems obvious that those will require special equipment to pick up and public roads should get priority.
Where I live there isn't an issue of undocumented workers. Lots of mostly white male landscapers own their own business. They might hire minority workers - allegedly, called by the "N" word in the long past by one of the old guys in the community.
I haven't seen many minority workers on the private street clean-ups. I do have an issue if the HOA is paying the cost because I doubt that there was any bidding involved and it's time that it gets exposed that the HOA has been paying for clean-up for private property for too long, all the while that it keeps us from using HOA common areas, due to the good ole boy affiliations. This is exactly the kind of chaotic situation where good ole boys find a way to benefit at everyone's cost.
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