The CCID’s Urban Management department works to provide a clean, attractive and risk-reduced Central City. It does this by delivering top-up services to those of the CBD’s primary service provider, the City of Cape Town. This includes maintenance to remedy damaged signage and pavement surfaces, and minor potholes. An upskilled team consisting of six members from Straatwerk attends to these, as well as road-marking painting.
The department's three precinct managers coordinate the removal of illegal posters and graffiti; clearing of drains and channel outlets that could flood during heavy rain; weed spraying and removal; and the pruning of trees and maintaining of tree wells to ensure that public green spaces are neat and tidy.
They also act as liaisons between Central City stakeholders and local government on a range of issues. Currently, they are facilitating discussions between business owners and officials regarding the latest allocation of informal trading bays.
If you need assistance from a CCID precinct manager, first identify your precinct by checking this map against the following information. The blue section is precinct one, and its manager is Mmiselo Ntsime. The green section is precinct two, and its manager is Paul Lotter. The orange section is precinct three, and its manager is Carlisle Marankey. The red section, precinct four, is also coordinated by Mmiselo. Click here to see their contact details.
Here are three examples of the Urban Management department's recent work.
There’s nothing like a great “recycling” project among neighbours. In November, Missibaba in Bree Street indicated to precinct manager Carlisle Marankey that – due to renovations done by Urban Lime – the shop no longer needed the two lovely potted aloes in front of its premises. Carlisle immediately thought of Euro Haus in Loop Street, which has almost identical pots outside, as a great new home for them. Euro Haus owner Rosa happily agreed to take them. The CCID's Urban Maintenance team relocated them to join Euro Haus's full collection.
In mid-October, the department’s road maintenance team showed its keen eye for detail. In this picture, they are tightening and repositioning MyCiTi wayfinding signage in St Georges Mall.
Three weeks earlier, this same team levelled out the sidewalk at the corner of Burg and Hout streets, where a tree’s roots had lifted the paving bricks.
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