Dumpster
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2014 2:42 pm
I have a commercial property near me that before the current owner I never really had a issue out of except for the occasional punk that the store could not help/control as it was after hours and I had no problem taking care of if they were whizzing in a pop machine or trying to break into the store etc. if I saw them.
Now with the current owner not long after they purchased the store they moved the dumpster right to the side of the store across from the road frontage of my home. They asked me before they did it if it was ok and said it was ONLY while they worked on their lot and they would move it back to where it had been all along as soon as possible. Well, that my friends has now turned into a years and years long lie. I have confronted the store owner (who by the way has started a unofficial bar running off the grocery/restaurant license and then to my understanding sells alcohol to people and then they drink it in cups and now the nice little country store that I saw as a asset when I moved to my current home over 15 years ago is now a nuisance. It finally got to late night "bar" activities followed up by the frequent drunk leaving and squalling tires right past the front of my house (and Avery's window who at one point was a newborn) and I had to have a "serious" conversation about that which it has stopped.
But the dumpster... Still remains. One of his excuses to not move it back was that the garbage truck would make ruts in his parking lot. I even offered to help pay to pour concrete in an area for him to move it to but he would not go for it. All day/night long I would have the random dumpster diver/unauthorized dumper. The dumpster is a major eyesore and I have grown very tired of the lie and dealing with it. I called the company that provided the dumpster and let them know their dumpster was 1) encroaching onto a state road and 2) was a nuisance. They did have the owner start using the lids and had him lock them which helped with some of the night time activities but its still a eyesore and something that a good neighbor would not do to another. ESPECIALLY when they have somewhere else to put it where it bothered NO ONE. AND it sat in a shaded area where it did not really get a smell that you could detect when you had your nose up to it. Now it sits in the sun and drives me nuts. I am trying to get my county judge executive to do something about it and if he does not I might just go it alone. He states he is working with planning and zoning to make something happen but has so stated such since July 30th 2012. At least now it is a election year for him.. Maybe that will help. If he does not give me something to go on soon it might become something for someone running against him to tout.
For now I spent a little time and this is what I came up with for a proposal.
Let me know what you think. Maybe some of our resident attorneys or even maybe some of our members are on ordinance boards etc. where they live.
I'm all for living free but NOT when you cause issue to the life, liberty or HAPPINESS of other people from your selfishness or uncaring of your fellow man.
Well that file did not attach so well so here are a couple more: zipped jpg files
Some other photos http://www.lakecumberlandboaters.com/fi ... 0Dumpster/
Ahh heck here are the jpgs. Maybe it is my Win7 system but for some reason it is not liking the attachments from here today.
Now with the current owner not long after they purchased the store they moved the dumpster right to the side of the store across from the road frontage of my home. They asked me before they did it if it was ok and said it was ONLY while they worked on their lot and they would move it back to where it had been all along as soon as possible. Well, that my friends has now turned into a years and years long lie. I have confronted the store owner (who by the way has started a unofficial bar running off the grocery/restaurant license and then to my understanding sells alcohol to people and then they drink it in cups and now the nice little country store that I saw as a asset when I moved to my current home over 15 years ago is now a nuisance. It finally got to late night "bar" activities followed up by the frequent drunk leaving and squalling tires right past the front of my house (and Avery's window who at one point was a newborn) and I had to have a "serious" conversation about that which it has stopped.
But the dumpster... Still remains. One of his excuses to not move it back was that the garbage truck would make ruts in his parking lot. I even offered to help pay to pour concrete in an area for him to move it to but he would not go for it. All day/night long I would have the random dumpster diver/unauthorized dumper. The dumpster is a major eyesore and I have grown very tired of the lie and dealing with it. I called the company that provided the dumpster and let them know their dumpster was 1) encroaching onto a state road and 2) was a nuisance. They did have the owner start using the lids and had him lock them which helped with some of the night time activities but its still a eyesore and something that a good neighbor would not do to another. ESPECIALLY when they have somewhere else to put it where it bothered NO ONE. AND it sat in a shaded area where it did not really get a smell that you could detect when you had your nose up to it. Now it sits in the sun and drives me nuts. I am trying to get my county judge executive to do something about it and if he does not I might just go it alone. He states he is working with planning and zoning to make something happen but has so stated such since July 30th 2012. At least now it is a election year for him.. Maybe that will help. If he does not give me something to go on soon it might become something for someone running against him to tout.
For now I spent a little time and this is what I came up with for a proposal.
Let me know what you think. Maybe some of our resident attorneys or even maybe some of our members are on ordinance boards etc. where they live.
I'm all for living free but NOT when you cause issue to the life, liberty or HAPPINESS of other people from your selfishness or uncaring of your fellow man.
Well that file did not attach so well so here are a couple more: zipped jpg files
Some other photos http://www.lakecumberlandboaters.com/fi ... 0Dumpster/
Ahh heck here are the jpgs. Maybe it is my Win7 system but for some reason it is not liking the attachments from here today.
- Proposed Draft Harrison County dumpster ordiance_Page_1.jpg (77.86 KiB) Viewed 3544 times
- Proposed Draft Harrison County dumpster ordiance_Page_2.jpg (84.18 KiB) Viewed 3544 times
- Proposed Draft Harrison County dumpster ordiance_Page_3.jpg (17.13 KiB) Viewed 3544 times