May 24, 2013
Property Maintenance Policy Being Promoted in Mount Pleasant to
“Improve the Beauty of our Town”
MOUNT PLEASANT: Property owners and landlords in Mount Pleasant who have unsightly property will have less time to ignore the problem, and will potentially pay more fines if they do so.
‘We are promoting our policy to get properties with high grass, junk, and debris cleaned up more quickly,” says Scotty Moore, Interim Director of Planning and Zoning. Moore explained that in the past, numerous notices were sent to the owner of the eyesore property, after which the city cleaned up the mess and then added the cost to the property tax. This could be a drawn-out process with no resolution of the mess, Moore said.
The policy is aimed to “improve the beauty of our town,” Moore says, by quickly putting the responsibility for clean, properly-mowed property on the owner.
Under the property maintenance policy, as a courtesy, a certified notice will be sent, and it will give the property owner ten (10) days to mow and/or clean the noted area.
“If nothing has been done by the eleventh day, we will issue a summons or a citation to the City Court of Mount Pleasant,” Moore says. “There, the owner of an unsightly property can explain to the Judge why it has not been resolved. This could end up with their paying court cost and a civil penalty up to $50.00 per day they are in violation.”
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For more information, please contact
Mount Pleasant City Manager Michelle Williams
@ 931 379 7717 or email @ mwilliams@MountPleasantTN.org
Source:
http://www.springhillinformer.com/?p=18044