Dallas residents are drawing a line in the alley. Thousands who filled out a recent city sanitation survey said they want to keep trash picked up behind their homes, and many are willing to pay extra to hang on to that service. The mid-November questionnaire pulled in just over 10,000 responses out of nearly 44,000 mailings, leaving a large majority of households quiet while city staff weigh whether to scale back alley collection or leave it alone.
What the survey found
In a City of Dallas briefing, staff reported that 43,949 surveys went out and 10,158 came back, meaning roughly 77% of recipients did not respond. Among those who did, 93% said they want to keep alley pickup, and 60% indicated they would be willing to pay something more to hold on to…..