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Section 6: ECC/ARC/CPI Subject: Compliance Rant Msg# 885393
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Ed Hickle Today at 10:19 AM To: bthompson@oceanpines.org directors@oceanpines.org Photos 20140517_081721.jpg 20140517_081811.jpg 20140517_081852.jpg Download All As a follow up to my note below I'd like to update status regarding the "eyesores" of vehicles on the lot adjacent to me: - Both of these vehicles have not moved in the 7 years I have lived here. - One has flat tires and the other had large tree branch fall thru the windshield (unrepaired I might add). - I am 99.9% certain that the tags have not been renewed for years. - The vehicles cannot be driven and therefore could never pass any inspection to renew the registration - A county inspector was here yesterday and said they could do nothing as the vehicles are covered. - Eddie Chiles informed me that the OP Compliance staff could take no action as the vehicles are covered. I am just pleading that we use a little common sense in this community and issue a warning/citation whatever to the owner that something positive be done to correct this situation. Attached are 3 pictures of these "eyesores". I have not gotten any response or interest from yourself or any of the directors other than Marty Clarke. Please ..... do something !! Ed Hickle 34 Battersea 410-259-3548 ----- Forwarded Message ----- Please reference my note on the Ocean Pines forum under the Compliance section note # 884885. I think the note expresses my frustration, and that of several of my neighbors ...... 14 years or so of the vehicles just sitting there I'm sure you will agree is just a little excessive. Thanks for your anticipated help. Ed Hickle 34 Battersea 410-259-3548 Sent from Yahoo! Mail for Windows 8 3 AttachmentsView allDownload all |
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For reference, the above message is a reply to a message where: I'm a 7 year resident of OP and aside from an occasional poster I guess one could label me a "lurker" on this forum. But now there is an issue I'm compelled to speak out about. My home is on Battersea road and for the 7 years I've lived here I've had to look at two covered vehicles that a neighbor owns. Neither vehicle has moved in those years and on at least on one the tires are flat. Another neighbor informs me the vehicles have set there for 14 years or so. Further down Battersea there are four uncovered vehicles in a driveway that also are untagged and appear to have been in the same position for a long time. Having just returned from a winter in Florida, good timing yes ?, I decided it was past time to discuss the situation with the owner of these vehicles. Suffice to say the conversation was not fruitful. I contacted the Compliance department, who were very professional and courteous BTW, and despite expressing empathy for the situation told me their hands are tied as the bylaws were revised sometime ago to allow untagged, unregistered, uninsured vehicles to sit and rust in driveways for eternity I suppose, obviously I added that last part. These vehicles are eyesores.....covered of not !! Besides the abandoned homes, yards that are not maintained these situations just lower all of our property values and the quality of life in the Pines. Not knowing where to turn I simply decided to raise the issue on this forum. If we are to have compliance regulations should not we have regulations that work to the betterment of our community !! Thanks for listening, at least for now I feel a little better ! |
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