John here.
Jeff Butera of ABC Action News called Carolyn for an appointment to see the problems at 6003. His did a pretty good job of reporting the situation. He did a superior job of turning out Code nonEnforcement: The acting Deputy Mayor who has Code and the Area Supervisor for Code. We'll have more to say about them later.
For now, we'll note that the Code nonEnforcement guy told Carolyn several times that the birdbath, benches, and swing were personal taste and they could do nothing about them. I guess he is too important to have read the file or this blog before coming out. If he had done either he would have known that Carolyn has not complained about those things.
Butera also caught the notion that the sewage problem was only in July. In fact, of course, July was the third incident in a series that goes back nearly a year.
For now, the question is the one Carolyn posed: Why does it take a TV station to get Code nonEnforcement, which has been trashing about fecklessly for four years now, to (maybe, at last) do its job?
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I got a tree guy to give me some of that nice really nice mulch you get from chipped oak trees? HE dumped it right at my fence, it was maybe three feet high at first nut I had plans for it. Instead I was chased through the streets BY A COP from the state attorney's office (for the code dept)This happened with NO prior notice They only use teeth when they are trying to harass you and steal your property. In your case they're helping HIM (James) harass you while they all laugh. I find you a good human. I applaud you. He's NOT living in Riverview he's in Tampa. That's why county code enforcement is different than city. Plain and simple: country folk live different than city folk. As I have a foot in both worlds I know.
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