A report on the Nuisance Abatement Points System for Rochester businesses concludes “mend it, don’t end it.”
The system tracks businesses that cause trouble for the surrounding neighborhoods by assigning points when police are called out. The city can move to shut the business down if it gets too many points over a year. But some neighborhoods including Beechwood complained to City Hall that the system wasn’t being applied equally.
Mayor Lovely Warren hired Strategic Community Intervention LLC of Rochester to study the point system. Their report says the idea of the system is fine, but it needs better implementation.
The report finds the system is being applied inconsistently by the four different Neighborhood Service Centers that administer it in the four city quadrants. It recommends one administrator to oversee the entire program. It also says the most successful point system is in the Southwest Quadrant, which uses a neighborhood advisory board to assign the nuisance points. It recommends that system be used citywide.
http://www.cityofrochester.gov/nuisancereport/