The Central City Improvement District has hit back at Long Street residents, saying most of its budget is spent on security and that Cape Town CBD is the safest and cleanest in the country.
The Long Street Residents Association says the CCID is not doing enough about noise, crime, grime and parking, and queried its R33 million budget.
CCID chief operating officer
Tasso Evangelinos said an independent survey had found that Cape Town’s CBD was considered to be one of the safest and cleanest in the country, and this was “thanks in no small part to the efforts of the CCID”.
Since the launch of the CCID in 2000, crime had fallen by close to 90 percent. It was the role of the city council to deal with noise pollution.
Evangelinos said the cost of parking had come up strongly in recent surveys as an issue of concern for all users of the CBD.
The CCID had passed the findings on to the city, which had started a public participation process, with the current parking tender about to expire.
Cape Argus