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JUN: 9 1987 BOOK 6 8 [Y�'UE 519 RECOMMENDATION: Staff recommends, in accordance with Section 13-20(c) of the Nuisance Ordinance, that the Board adopt a resolution declaring a weed nuisance on the subject property, giving the owner ten (10) days to correct the nuisance. In the event that the weed nuisance is not abated within ten (10) days, staff recommends that the Board authorize County staff to abate the nuisance and assess such cost against the property owner. Chairman Scurlock noted that there is no requirement of a public notice in an appeal of a Public Nuisance Ordinance violation. Penelope Hessen, 2105 Windward Way, emphasized that this particular lot was on the tax rolls under a tax certificate between 1978 and 1982. In 1982 she purchased it as a tax deed, and until 1984 no one ever bothered her about the condition of the lot. About that time she noticed that someone in the neighborhood had been parking a truck on the lot, and she put a stop to that because she did not want the lot to become a parking lot. She believed the truck belonged to the Mithiaco's, who made the complaint to the Code Enforcement Board. A while later, a huge load of sand was delivered and dumped on the lot, apparently to be used by the Mithiaco's in landscaping their lot. Mrs. Hessen wished to read a letter from someone in the neighborhood that was put in her mailbox, but Chairman Scurlock pointed out that the main issue today is not to settle an neighborhood dispute, but to determine whether Mrs. Hessen is in violation of the Public Nuisance Ordinance in that her lot has grasses and weeds growing to heights exceeding 18". Mrs. Hessen argued that the high grass is to the back of the lot, and did not feel she should be held responsible for removing the grass clippings and branches that have been dumped in the front of the lot. She felt that she should not have to police her property to keep people from dumping there. Chairman Scurlock explained that the new ordinance states that a lot, which"Js next to a developed lot in a platted 31