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Editorial - April 2002 |
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Updated zoning, more enforcement needed on eyesores April 12, 2002 - The natural beauty of our city and county is too often marred by properties littered with junk, abandoned trailers, deserted and dilapidated structures. We keep hearing complaints about eyesores and they will continue until the city and county update zoning ordinances and put muscle in their enforcement. The latest complaints surfaced at a county Board of Commissioners meeting and were directed at the Roseland Trailer Park on Swing Hill Drive in the southern part of the county. At least in this case, the county sent a zoning official out to view the area and the owner appears responsive. It remains to be seen if anything will be done. In Lincoln County’s wide open spaces a lot of these trashy areas are hidden away in the countryside and rarely bring complaints because they are off the beaten path. But closer in to the more populous areas many of them are all too visible to the neighborhoods they contaminate. We all know of eyesores within the city limits of Lincolnton. At the recent public forum on the city’s land use update, recommendations were heard to improve the appearance of the entrance “gateways” travelers take into the city. Today, those entrances do little to reflect the presence of an outstanding city. Are our ordinances too weak? Do they really allow the mounds of junk we see in some peoples’ yards? Are our city council members and county commissioners just too complacent to take action? We know our relatively small local governments don’t have a cadre of zoning officers to go out and tell people to clean up their junk. We also know that there are extenuating circumstances that affect some property owners — health and wealth issues. But to do nothing about eyesores that fester for years should not be an option in a community that prides itself on the beauty and character of its environment.
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