CDN-NDG blunders, allows explosion of industrial box eyesores

Politicians have allowed the streets of NDG to be littered with hideous industrial boxes

Anybody traveling along Upper Lachine Road within the last few months would have noticed that the area has been polluted with hideous metal boxes meant to collect clothing for charity.
   Now the borough is scrambling to manage the subsequent complaints relating to their failure to prevent residents from such eyesores.
    Unlike well-run areas of town,  the borough has little or no restrictions on what sort of junk landowners can place upon their property, so when some clothing collection charity called property owners to ask them to host one of their clothing-for-the-poor depots, they popped one on every site that said yes.
   The property owners should have simply said, "I wish you luck with your charity but borough restrictions will not allow me to place such a thing in front of my property."
   But those landowners do not actually live in their buildings so they are no more sensitive to the area residents than the local politicians, who appear more interested in bickering than looking in on the voters.
    Incredibly, three such boxes sit within 400 metres of each other between Girouard and Melrose, plus another there's one about 200 metres away on St. James W., far more than needed, which is zero.
   There are also boxes in front of the Amazones strip club and the Chinada restaurant in that ghetto building on St. James and Elmherst, So that makes six boxes in a 3.4 km linear strip, and there are possibly others as well.
  Anybody unhappy with the offputting presence of such boxes can complain to the borough by dialling 311 or simply contacting the property owners themselves.
 Amazones 514-484-8695, 1089 Girouard Mark Filippelli, 5566 Upper Lachine Giacomo Mariani, 5800 Upper Lachine Frank Zhu.