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Longtime resident urges action over livestock, waste and code-enforcement failures
Summary
At the Feb. 19 Tooele City Council meeting, resident James Elliott described ongoing animal and property problems at a neighboring parcel, said previous complaints produced no effective enforcement and said a court case is pending.
James Elliott, a longtime Tooele resident, told the Tooele City Council during the public-comment period on Feb. 19 that a neighbor’s animals and site conditions have damaged his property and that city enforcement has not resolved the problem.
Elliott said the adjacent property now contains “approximately 9, 8 pigs, 20 goats, and there’s still 1 horse left,” and that animals have destroyed his fence, grapevines and several fruit trees. He said he filed complaints “approximately 3 years ago,”…
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