Linwood board frustrated with blight

Amy Doeun
Linwood Reporter
Supervisor Mike Halliday brought a long-standing complaint from an area resident to the Linwood Town Board at the board’s July 11 meeting. Complaints began back in 2008. Halliday said the complaints cover “numerous properties in a couple block area” on 225th and 226th Avenue.broadstreet.zone(48036);
“There is some interesting stuff going on there,” he said. “We had conversations with residents, and normally not a lot happens.”
The complaints include difficulty getting through the streets due to obstruction as well as unkempt or junk-laden yards.
Halliday went on to say that last year, the town took seven residents to court “on different accounts, and they were all thrown out – that is what we are trying to avoid.”
The town is looking into how best to proceed with the situation.
“The township has been too lenient,” Supervisor Tim Peterson said. “There are fire pits right on the road because there is no room in the

See Full Post >>