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Junk Ordinance

By News 5

Published: Tue, March 13, 2007 - 7:03 am

It's the single most complained about issue in Mobile County, junk in people's yards. If you're tired of junk cars and piles of garbage next door, you're in luck. Mobile County Commissioners are working on an ordinance that would slap fines on people stashing trash!

If you've ever driven down Chunchula-Georgetown Road, you can't miss it! Lewis Hawkins stopped running a junkyard business. Now, he just has the junk. News 5"s Tiffany Craig asked, 'I mean you understand that when people drive by here it's an eye sore. You know that right-" Hawkins responds, "Well, whatever you call it. Them folks have different opinions."

Neighbor Clarence Byrd can't stand the mess. "Figured he ought to be man enough to move it or put a fence around it, one."

A new county ordinance will tackle the junky problem! Commissioner Steve Nodine says the junk has got to go! "What we hope to do is buy enforcing this ordinance, stop it before it gets out of control. This not only breeds mosquitoes, rats and rodents but it affects quality of life of everyone who lives out here."

In 90 days, owners will have to clean up or pay up! We found another junk haven on Redstone Drive East. The owner wasn't home but Avalisha Fisher describes the mess she drives past everyday to get to work. 'Trash debris, lots of vehicles and mobile homes and just junk." Fisher says they paved the road a few years ago and it didn't make a bit of difference. "I'm really disappointed. When we got the road paved up there, we really expected the area to clean up."

Violators will get two warnings and then a fine. The penalty is 150 dollars a day until the mess is cleaned up.

Click here if you would like to read the DRAFT "Control of Junk" Ordinance

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