Working for you, CBS 8 reached out to the City of San Diego and MTS to find out who is responsible for removing the graffiti on the buildings and the stone wall.<\/p>\n
SAN DIEGO \u2014 For the past five years, Bay Ho residents’ usual drive along Morena Boulevard near Costco has been overshadowed by graffiti. They say no one is taking responsibility to remove it, and now, they want answers.<\/p>\n
Behind the train tracks, building after building has been tagged.<\/p>\n
Mark Heinze has lived in the neighborhood for years and has watched the graffiti spread.<\/p>\n
\u201cAcross from Costco, when I was leaving Costco, I noticed, ‘oh, there’s a giant graffiti probably about 30 feet high.’ And now there must be six buildings covered with graffiti,” He said. “And of course, now they’ve started spraying the stone walls.”<\/p>\n
Frustrated, Heinze and his neighbors turned to the city.<\/p>\n
\u201cI actually wrote in the Get It Done app three different times over three years, and they kept marking it resolved. And I said, ‘How is it resolved?’ And they said, ‘Well, it’s not the city’s responsibility. It’s MTS,’ which is the trolley,\u201d Heinze said.<\/p>\n
But when he contacted MTS, they told him it was the city\u2019s responsibility.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I spoke to the city again, and they said, it’s just too dangerous to work that close to the tracks. Well, the graffiti artist- they did a pretty good job of working there,\u201d Heinze said.<\/p>\n
That leaves residents wondering: who is responsible?<\/p>\n
\u201cWe’re kind of stuck here with no response. And everyone writes to Get It Done, and it always says resolved, but there’s no change,\u201d said Heinze.<\/p>\n
CBS 8 reached out to the City of San Diego. The city said Heinze\u2019s most recent Get It Done request from June 2024 is still \u201cin process,\u201d and staff are reviewing it.<\/p>\n
The city also told CBS 8 that they are working on getting answers about how to deal with the large graffiti tags on commercial buildings.<\/p>\n