Minneapolis Offers Help With Graffiti Clean up

Minneapolis,MN,USA

Aug 4, 2004 12:14 pm US/Central
Minneapolis (WCCO) The City of Minneapolis is offering additional help for residents who have to remove graffiti from their properties.

Throughout this summer and fall, property owners have two options:

1. If property owners would like to remove graffiti from their properties, they can pick up Gangbusters, a graffiti removal product, at any Minneapolis fire station free-of-charge.

2. If owners do not want to remove the graffiti themselves, they city will provide free removal or repainting over it. Any previously painted surface up to eight feet high is eligible for repainting or removal.

The city will not remove graffiti from sensitive surfaces though, like unpainted brick or stucco.

The city has a graffiti-removal painter on staff daily and residents or business owners who would like to utilize this service, are asked to call the graffiti hotline at 612-673-2090.

Once graffiti is reported, the graffiti hotline will notify the Minneapolis Police Department and the Housing Inspections.

The Housing Inspections department will send a letter to the address requesting the owner either returns a letter of consent within 10 days authorizing the city to paint over it or the owner will have to remove or paint over the graffiti in 10 days.