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Supervisors Approve Cleaning Up Unsafe Eyesore Properties
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors approved cleaning up property located on CR 514.
By Alyssa Schnugg
Staff writer
alyssa.schnugg@hottytoddy.com
The Lafayette County Board of Supervisors voted Monday to clean up two properties in the county that were deemed a public health and safety risk.
A public hearing was held Monday during the Supervisors regular meeting where Building Inspector Joel Hollowell showed photos of the two properties to the Supervisors and asked them to consider condemning them for proper clean up.
The owner of the first property discussed, located on County Road 514, is owned by an elderly man who is now living in a nursing home.
The property has several dilapidated structures, and the main house also appears to be in disrepair, Hollowell said.
“However, it doesn’t look to be in very bad shape,” Hollowell said. “There is a leak in the roof and some mold issues but the house is fairly sound structurally.”
The Supervisors approved removing the dilapidated structures and cleaning up the lots, but leaving the main structure.
The second property, on County Road 2001, has piles of industrial-sized empty food cans and scrap metal littering the yard. Old mattresses are piled on top of the debris. There is one house and one mobile home on the property. A man rents and lives in the mobile home.
Property located on CR 2001 is littered with scrap metal, mattresses and food cans.
Hollowell said the wood frame house is in danger of collapsing and the doors are not secure, leaving it accessible to nearby children to play in.
John Wadley who lives next to the property asked the Supervisors to step in and clean up the property.
“The house is about to fall in and there’s a bunch of junk there,” he said. “It’s just awful. We’ve been trying to get them to clean this up for years.”
The Supervisors voted to condemn the house and have it demolished and to clean up the trash from the property if the homeowners fail to have it done within 30 days.
On both properties, if the county does the work to clean up and demolish structures, the cost to clean up the property will then be assessed to their property taxes.
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