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9.B. PUBLIC DISCUSSION ITEMS <br />9.B.1. REQUEST TO SPEAK FROM BW TREASURE, INC., BENNE <br />HAMBLIN REGARDING CODE ENFORCEMENT LIEN <br />Renne Hamblin, 849 20th St., (Property Manager of Winn Dixie), relayed that she <br />had been fined with an order of lien for a non -conforming landscape site. She provided the <br />Board a timeline to demonstrate her efforts to comply with code enforcement, stating that <br />due to the location of the drains, oak trees do not grow well on the property. Ms. Hamblin <br />showed some slides of the property, before and after her landscaping work, and stated that <br />although she had upgraded the property, her revision was denied. She requested that the <br />Board remove the lien. <br />Roland DeBlois, Chief of Environmental Planning and Code Enforcement, <br />conveyed that Ms. Hamblin had been given seven extensions, and was presented with two <br />options — to come into compliance with the existing plan and/or comply with the revised <br />landscape plan. Neither of those two things ever occurred, and eventually after almost a <br />year, the Board imposed the fine. Mr. DeBlois said there are some basic non-compliance <br />issues. <br />Upon Commissioner Flescher's inquiry, Attorney Collins advised that if there was <br />an appeal of a Code Enforcement order, it would be filed in Circuit Court within 30 days. <br />Mr. DeBlois said that once a respondent comes into compliance, the Board inspects the <br />property and has another hearing to acknowledge the compliance and set the fine. <br />Mitigating circumstances are taken into consideration at that time. Mr. DeBlois declared <br />that this case cannot go back to the Board yet, because it is not yet in compliance. <br />March 13, 2007 21 <br />