Posted on 01/30/2020 8:43:51 AM PST by NohSpinZone
A number of Alameda County, California, homeowners were less than pleased to find out they are being forced to split the cost of a roughly $20,000 cleanup effort undertaken to remove a local homeless encampment.
According to KPIX, the now-abandoned encampment, situated by a creek adjacent to Walsh Property Managements 75-residence Castro Valley housing development, was made known to local authorities as early as 2017.
Misunderstandings, however, as to whose land the camp sat on and who would be responsible Alameda County, East Bay Regional Parks or the nearby developments Lakewood Home Owners Association led to nearly 2 years of inaction.
And come August 2019, when the county finally determined the camp did in fact spill over onto development land, the cost of that inaction was to be shouldered by members of the HOA which is overseen by Walsh Property Management to the tune of $300 per homeowner.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
More like The Grapes of Wrath.
Some of those were overturned by SCOTUS, I believe in the late 1960s or 1970s.
I’d spend my free time boxing up some of trash and mailing it to county officials. Every week.
(They will also need to kill off weeds along their their fencelines several times per year.)
http://irapl.altervista.org/photos-us/h/smilax-tamnoides---hellfetter.htm
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