My question is how can they get that high up without being noticed? They might need a ladder..

Here’s another site of aerial graffiti, near South Union Street. It and 142 Church St. are perfect sites for deployment of surveillance cameras with closed circuit TV coverage.

The vandalism problem in BTV will only get worse until hard-core taggers are caught and taught the error of their destructive, disrespectful ways.

But cops refuse to do anything about it

This not about police fixing this problem. It is about a City administration and City Council needing to take a stand on addressing the issue's reality.

Agree with Downtown Bob.

Nothing will be done about the transformation of the Queen City into Graffiti City until street crime and vandalism is controlled in BTV.

First step; get the Progressives out of power. Start by voting out the current left-leaning State’s Attorney Sarah George on August 9, 2022.

If you care about the future of Burlington, read State’s Attorney candidate Ted Kenny’s position on law and order and vote for him in the Democratic Primary on August 9, 2022.

But in order for the city to get cleaned up the police have to get involved by giving the people that do the graffiti a court citation. They're not going to do that unless Sarah George agrees to but she won't because she's going after the bigger criminals and most of them only get a slap on the wrist! The city council should have never said that Burlington had to many police officers on the streets and now look at what's going on... Crime is way up do to everything..

Please note that in one full month since I posted my original SCF description -- the issue along Church Street has actually become WORSE. "Burlington VT" assigned the issue to "Permitting & Inspections" -- there is no improvement yet. Does this require a "public" or "private" response?

I would say everyone that agrees with you should go in person to the permitting and inspections department and see what they will do..

SIXTY DAYS and no response from Permitting & Inspections. Is this a city responsibility or a property owner's responsibility (for removal). There does not seem to be a city working policy for preventing vandalism.

Well it's apparent that the city doesn't really care about the graffiti or they would have responded by now with some sort of reason why they aren't doing anything or something to the complaints!!!

Yup -- 91 days and still no attempt by property owners (or BTV) to remove this vandalism. Is there any city responsibility here to clean vandalism from private property? This is apparently done in many other instances throughout Burlington.

Why don't you try to call the city office and complain to them instead of posting on here? I think it's Bill Ward but I know it's the dpw

Five months, now, and still viewing this mess daily.

By the way.. how much snow did we get last night?

SEVEN MONTHS --- still hoping that BTV and the property owners are up to providing relief from this ongoing mess in our city. (7 month since reporting in July last year)

It's pretty doubtful that they care and it's up to the property owners to decide if they want to take it off but apparently they don't

Hoping this will be addressed during warmer weather as Mayor Weinberger has stated.

I'm doubtful that he will do anything and leave it up to the street department to do anything

The transformation of the the once Queen City to Graffiti City continues unabated.

What will it take for people to stand up and say “Enough is Enough?”

I would like to suggest that concerned citizens form a group to campaign for improvement.

My suggestion: We need an energetic young attorney to step forward and lead the group. The city’s budget is $96 million/year. Surely with these funds, we can install security cameras at hotspots, form a police special task force, hire undercover officers to identify big time vandals, and insist that the states attorney hold responsible taggers accountable.

Yes I have to agree with you

There is finally warm weather...Mayor Weinberger stated that the response to graffiti would start up again once this weather arrived...hopeful that this will now be addressed.

Weinberger doesn't do much of anything and it's the public works department that gets things done when they want to

This graffiti location continues to expand...no cleanup...of course, directly opposite City Hall on the Marketplace. Please keep the issue OPEN (even as we approach almost one year since the original post.

Why don't you stop crying about it on here because it's obvious nobody on the city council reads anything on this site! You would have better luck talking to a deaf person.. you need to talk to someone in charge of the graffiti removal team in person and stop complaining on here because it's obvious they don't pay attention! Or are you one of these people that don't know how to actually use a phone to call people?

YUP, NOW OVER ONE YEAR...and additional tagging has occurred. Noting the lack of being addressed for so long.

Why don't YOU take it down instead of whining about it! It's obvious nobody is interested in doing anything about it and listening to you WHINE about it. Or go to the mayor's office and talk to him directly?

A freshly painted, new scenic mural (details not yet known) is now occupying this wall -- a very long wait, but appreciated and well done. Thanks to the property owner.