Woodfin Mayor Jerry VeHaun expressed his exasperation with a Woodfin mobile home park at 245 Weaverville Road. He said since April 2, 2003, the Woodfin fire and police department have been called to the park 233 times. Ninety-four of those incidents have occurred this year.
"It's time to get this place out of here. I want to see this place shut down, bottom line," VeHaun told the Woodfin Board of Aldermen on Tuesday night. "It's time we clean this place up one way or the other."
Woodfin Town Administrator Jason Young said his staff would begin to look at what ordinances the park is currently violating in the town's minimum standard housing and nuisance policies. He said the town would issue citations to each offense.
Other notes from Woodfin...
*The town will begin weekly recycle service Sept. 2. It currently picks up recycling every two weeks. Mixed paper recycling will begin shortly thereafter, said Young.
*The town's skate park at South Woodfin Park should be installed by middle of September.
*Many municipalities are following Woodfin's lead in banning registered sex offenders from town parks. In a landmark decision, the N.C. Supreme Court ruled in June that the town had legal right to ban sex offenders from its parks. Young said the cities of Hickory and Wilmington are several examples of municipalities following Woodfin's lead.
For more on the sex offender ban story, read the Tribune's articles here and here.
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