Posted on 08/18/2016 1:53:56 PM PDT by SandRat
SIERRA VISTA — City and Cochise County officials and the owner of several properties in the Fry Townsite have agreed upon the basis of a deal which would ultimately result in the clearing away of dozens of dilapidated mobile homes and junk vehicles from the county enclave.
The final details of the deal are still being fine-tuned and will have to be accepted by a federal bankruptcy court, but after months of negotiations between property owner Lane Balmer and Mary Jacobs, assistant city manager of Sierra Vista, as well as Britt Hanson, chief civil deputy attorney for the Cochise County Attorney’s Office, the parties involved feel they have reached a solution which will result in great strides in cleaning up an area which has been of concern to city and county officials for decades.
After moving to the area 40 years ago, the Balmer family built up a business of multiple low-income rental properties throughout the unincorporated Fry Townsite. As time went on and family members passed away, it fell to Lane Balmer to sustain the dozens of properties, essentially on his own, Balmer wrote in a statement to the Herald.
I was hoping from that headline that it would be about the Republican Party
There is trailer trash to be removed there too.
These slum conditions exist all over the country, and have been for decades. I have said many times that if I were a town Mayor and there were buildings declared UN-inhabitable, I would have them demolished and planted with grass.
Yeay! My daughter lives just a block from there (nice neighborhood right next to the opium den) and it’s horrible.
The cinder block walls aren’t high enough to deal with that blight.
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