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<p>PITTSTON &#8212; Aimed at quality-of-life issues, the city conducted an unannounced sweep of the Oregon Heights neighborhood Tuesday through its recently formed Neighborhood Action Team.</p><p>The team&#8217;s purpose is to address blight, property maintenance issues, and other problems. </p><p>The city&#8217;s Facebook page put up this post as the sweep was ongoing late Tuesday morning: &#8220;Personnel are looking for code, criminal and quality of life violations. Additionally, two vacant structures will be demolished.</p><p>&#8220;This is the new normal. This City will not tolerate any activity, or anti-social behavior, that degrades the quality of life in our neighborhoods.&#8221;</p><p>During the sweep, code enforcement issued violations to 27 different properties.</p><p>Comments on social media included residents who applauded the effort, to others who asked why it took so long.</p><p>&#8220;Our intentions are not to violate civil rights, but the city is concerned and interested in targeting areas where there are high-crime activities and drug use and we have documentation to where those areas are and we&#8217;re going to continue that fight,&#8221; said City Administrator Joe Moskovitz. &#8220;We&#8217;re not going to allow crime and drugs to continue in these areas. You&#8217;ve got to start somewhere and you&#8217;ve got to stop these issues.&#8221;</p><p>More unannounced sweeps are planned in the near future in areas such as Searle, Mill and Carroll streets.</p><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s far from one-and-done and will be a continuing effort from our city,&#8221; said Moskovitz. &#8220;These problems weren&#8217;t created overnight and won&#8217;t go away overnight.&#8221;</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>City official: Not a one-time effort</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Jimmy Fisher</p><p>jfisher@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Jimmy Fisher at 570-704-3972 or on Twitter @SD_JimmyFisher</p></shirttailMeta></div>

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