[TheRealVille]

My thoughts exactly.
This is something that i believe invades a private personal rights.
If you own land and your name is on the deed then you should have the right to do with your property whatever you want.

Its the same way when you buy land on a "restricted" property, meaning no trailers or doublewides or anythings.

Its beyond me how something like this is even legal.

Yes, its a mess and clean your damn place up, but putting someone in prison for there own junk on there property is ridicolous.

It's called zoning, and I agree with it a hundred percent. If someone wants to live in a trailer,(and there's nothing wrong with that, I did for years) just don't try to buy land that is zoned. If I buy zoned property, to build a nice house, I don't want a mobile home, or a junk place beside of me destroying the worth of my place. In town, I'm all for them making people keep their place clean. That's the reason I live in town, because I know code will be enforced, and I won't have junk next to me. It is a direct cost to other property owners by bringing the worth of the neighbors property down. That being said, out in a rural setting, I don't think they should be able to make them keep it as clean. They spent two decades trying to get him to clean it up, and he lived in zoned property. If my neighbor started putting a junkyard next to me in town, I would do everything in my power to get it condemned. Why didn't this guy go out in the country if he wanted a place that looked like this? He was in town, and knew it was zoned, a code officer had been there many times.