Woodland Ridge residents ask McComb board for permanent trash-bin placements to help elderly homeowners
Homeowners Association president Paty Grofield asked the McComb board for an exemption to the city's trash-bin ordinance so permanently sited collection bins can serve 28 units with many residents over age 60, saying many cannot move cans to the street.
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Paty Grofield, president of the Woodland Ridge Homeowners Association, asked the Board of Mayor and Select Members on Aug. 4 for an exemption to McComb's garbage-bin ordinance so bins can remain permanently at curbside in the Woodland Ridge subdivision. Grofield said the development has 28 units and 34 residents, most of whom are older: "26 of those 20 of those 34 residents are over the age of 60 and many of them including myself are over the age of 70," she said, adding that many residents are physically unable to move cans back and forth between their property and the street.
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