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Resident urges Winnsboro to repair streets, clear overgrown lots and add fence at Martin Luther King Park
Summary
A longtime resident described potholes, overgrown historic markers and a collapsing house on Pine Street, and urged the city to address the problems; she also requested a fence at Martin Luther King Park to prevent children from entering a ravine.
Daisy Jones Lemons, a Winnsboro resident, told the city council she was ‘‘heartbroken’’ at the condition of her childhood neighborhood and asked officials to address potholes, overgrown lots and a dilapidated house on Pine Street.
Lemons, who gave her address as 400 North Beach Street, Apartment 113, said she returned to Winnsboro after living elsewhere and found the Dunbar historical marker and surrounding area overgrown with weeds. “I was asked, where is Dunbar? I mean, I didn't hear about it. I didn't get to come back up here to see it. She said, there you go. I said, where? And I had to literally look because the weeds were so high,” Lemons said.
Lemons described a large pothole and a section of Pine Street that is ‘‘caving in’’ on the right side when coming off her apartment complex and past Conde Mae Drive. She warned that the condition could cause drivers who travel the street at night to drive off the road and asked the council to address it. Lemons also told the council about a house on Pine Street that is “falling down” with an overflowing mailbox and said Martin Luther King Park is being mowed but would benefit from a fence at the back because balls kicked by children roll into a ravine where there could be hazards.
Separately, a resident raised a right-of-way and utility-pole question involving Apple Street and asked the council to require clear, written details from the utility contractor before granting permission to access or move poles on private property. The resident said the contractor proposed replacing wooden poles with metal ones and asked that the city require a layout of the proposed work and a demonstration of how any liability (fencing, water lines) would be handled before giving authorization.
Lemons concluded her public comment by asking the council to bring these issues to the appropriate committee so improvements can be scheduled. The transcript does not show a staff response with a timeline or specific commitments in the provided excerpts.
