Code Enforcement Disappointment

[LuciferSam]

Not cutting your grass is is like letting your pants hang down so that your underwear and butt crack shows. It should be legal, but nobody wants to see it.

 

[whatiscmr]

And what are we suppose to do about ugly neighbors? Maybe we could pass out county issued paper bags. I can see it now..."Sir we've received a number of complaints and given you several warnings. If you refuse to wear the bag we'll have no choice but to bring you downtown."

 

[joho]

It's not so much the overgrown grass and vines all over the building but the potential fire hazard it could bring for the neighborhood and elementary school. I have seen cars parked in the parking lot on the property for a number or reasons whether it's picking up students or just checking out the building. Like I said with the pine straw that has accumulated all over the building in the last three years of abandonment it only takes one careless/irresponsible person or teenager.

 

[joho]

Once again "The squeaky wheel gets the grease!"

Thanks Code Enforcement for following through and getting the dilapidated building next to Van Ness Butler Elementary school cleaned up. Now it's not so much of a fire hazzard! The residents of 30A appreciate your effort.

 

[heartbren]

Once again "The squeaky wheel gets the grease!"

Thanks Code Enforcement for following through and getting the dilapidated building next to Van Ness Butler Elementary school cleaned up. Now it's not so much of a fire hazzard! The residents of 30A appreciate your effort.

I was also able to get the house on 30A (abandoned) cut. I called and they said they had several calls on this one and after that they came right out and cut it. It looks so much better. Now I just have to get someone to come get the 100 plus empty white paint bucks as well as small ones. Someone came and dumped all of this stuff in the back of this empty house anc they put it all along my fence line. There's rebar, wood, sooo many paint cans, canvas, and more. What are people thinking. Besides being a mess to look at it is also a potential fire hazard if a spark from my dryer were to hit it. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing this. I guess they did nmot feel like going to the dump.

 

[HD Lady]

There is a property near us that was abandoned several years ago and is now bank owned. During this time, we have been cutting the grass so we wouldn't have to worry about the fire hazard, vandalism and look at an unsightly yard.

 

[Em]

So if I don't cut my grass, I could call the county and complain and the county would come out and cut it? What a great county government benefit we have! Who knew?

By the way, if you talk about fire hazards, our fire department will also tell you that pinestraw/mulch used right up to your house as landscaping around your flower beds, is also a fire hazzard, so let's not start getting the government to make laws that will harm us.

 

[beachmouse]

They'll also be glad to give you a bill for far more than the cost a lawn service would. This summer, we had a code enforcement issue in my neighborhood- guy who cut down several trees in his back yard, assumed that the trash guys would pick them up even though they didn't meet Waste Management's 'yard waste' criteria, and they sat for a couple weeks sitting half along his grass and half in the street. (It looked like post-hurricane debris piles for a while there)

And because he refused to pay a tree service maybe $200 to pick up his debris piles, he ended up with something like an $800-$900 charge from the county to pick up his tree bits.

 

[heartbren]

There is a property near us that was abandoned several years ago and is now bank owned. During this time, we have been cutting the grass so we wouldn't have to worry about the fire hazard, vandalism and look at an unsightly yard.

Unfotunately I cannott even cut my own so I have to pay som,eone to do my grass so I certainly cannnot cut anothers. They are only be asked to do what others expect of themselves, cut the grass and not use it as a junkyard.

 

[tsutcli]

Ran into this issue recently. Called about landscaping tree debris removal from curb. Was told that if I cut and piled debris they would remove. If I paid to have work done then it was the responsibility of the company to remove but county would pick up for a charge.