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Aspen Heights Housing

Zach Zawatski, the Baylor University junior, has come from New Jersey to call Waco his home. Little Aspen was his choice of off-campus housing, which he likes to take pride in. However, over the past year, things have changed.

“I am the self-proclaimed king of Aspen. They let me do whatever I wanted last year.

This year I have been getting a lot of complaints,” Zawatski said.

He said he is concerned about the new management that has taken over Aspen Heights. He is going on his second year of living in Aspen Heights. The new management has changed his view on the place he calls home.

He said he enjoys walking his dog “Ace” down the street multiple times daily. He is worried that one will get hurt shortly from the “crazy amounts of broken glass in the streets,” Zawatski said.

The amount of trash and garbage scattered on the streets has become something he has started to notice, making the street he lives on at first glance look “run down and cheap,” he said.

“All of my best friends live there, but with the management changing, we are all very disappointed with how it has been kept,” Zawatski said.

Recycling trucks only make an appearance once every two weeks—causing the overflow of trash to blow around a night, with no one coming to clean it up. He said he is disappointed with how the landscaping in the neighborhood is being taken care of, with overgrown lawns not being kept.

“All the bushes in front of my house are overgrown with weeds and dead. The grass very rarely gets cut, which I pay for in my rent,” he said.