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Residents press Town of Loxahatchee Groves to enforce code after years of alleged illegal dumping, RVs and unpermitted renters
Summary
Multiple residents told the Town Council they have spent years documenting manure dumping, commercial truck traffic and what they say are unpermitted apartments and RVs on Hyde Park Road and nearby properties. Town staff said fines are accruing, foreclosures are being considered and daily inspections have increased.
Residents from Hyde Park Road and other neighborhoods urged the Town of Loxahatchee Groves Council to escalate enforcement after describing what they called years of recurring illegal activity at nearby properties.
The council heard multiple public comments describing heavy truck traffic, large volumes of dumped horse manure near a drainage canal and what residents said were unpermitted apartments and trailers on the same parcel. “This person is being allowed to dump horse manure by the dump truck loads into a pond that is feet away from the canal,” resident Sandy Schafer told the council during public comment. “Open dumping of sewage … is being dumped, right into a pond.”
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