Instructions for special trash/recycling pick-up


• Trash and recycle pick-up normally scheduled for alley pick-up, will be collected on the street in front of residence homes on the normal collection day.


• Please make sure the trash/recycle can is in the street clearly marked and visible for the normal collection day. It is suggested that you put the trash/recycle can out the night before and leave it there until it is picked up.

Please put your trash cans back in your yard once the trash has been collected.

The purpose of this “Crime Prevention Alert” is to make you aware that the Baltimore County Police Department has identified a crime trend involving individuals who attempt to enter homes through deception or diversion. This is a scenario that we see played out more and more frequently in Baltimore County. Seniors are sometimes targeted, but all citizens need to be aware of this crime and how it is perpetrated.

We need volunteers to sign up for the Citizen's on Patrol program. If you are interested, please email president@knettishall.org

Towson, Md. (August 14, 2008) - Baltimore County's Department of Public Works is alerting homeowners to an illegal and unnecessary house number painting service which is being advertised door-to-door through official-looking green notices.

For a fee of $20 Community Curb Painters (a company of no known address and reachable only through a toll-free, leave-a-message-after-the-beep number) promises to paint a resident's address on the fronting curb - ostensibly to help police and fire personnel locate the property if summoned in an emergency. The advertising implies that Community Curb Painters is working in cooperation with local police and fire departments. It is not.

Such curb painting is illegal. Curbs are public property, in the public right-of-way, and unauthorized painting is prohibited under the County code. Moreover, this house number "service" does not satisfy the code requirement for posting addresses required for police and fire protection in Baltimore County. On logical grounds alone, note officials, the painting makes little sense since parked cars frequently block the view of curbs.

http://www.baltimorecountymd.gov/News/releases/0814curbs.html

The rear entrances of Knettishall homes face serviceable alleys used by fire and emergency services vehicles. So that they can do their job in a safe and timely manner, the county is mandating that all our houses display address numbers on the back of the properties. The numbers must be at least 3-in in height. Residents have until March 9th to comply (i.e. the deadline was last month) or face a fine of $100 for non-compliance. Numbers are available at Home Depot, Jo-Ann Fabrics or Wal-mart, for example.