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Neighbors accuse Pitts family of illegal fill and drainage damage; commission denies rural-overlay request
Summary
Commissioners denied a rural-overlay rezoning request for a 5.1-acre Pitts property after neighbors presented allegations of unpermitted fill, buried shingles and drainage alterations; the owners denied intentional wrongdoing and commissioners cited aerial imagery and unresolved concerns.
The Planning Commission voted to deny a request by Leon and Regina Pitts to apply the rural-overlay (RO) to a 5.1-acre property on Strandor Road, after an extended public comment period in which neighbors alleged unpermitted land alteration and ongoing drainage harms.
Neighbor Dennis Trainor detailed years of complaints, saying the Pitts property had been filled with truckloads of dirt without required permits, that old shingles had…
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