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Resident urges city action after years of neighbor’s junk piles near walking trail
Summary
A Colony resident told the council that a neighboring property has accumulated excess junk for years next to a new walking trail; council directed staff to meet with the resident and report back.
A resident of The Colony used the public-comment period to urge the city to act on a long-running problem with a neighboring property that he said has repeatedly accumulated large piles of junk adjacent to the new walking trail north of the police station.
Julian Cawthon (gave address 5301 Russell Drive) described multiple years of visible debris and said code enforcement tickets have been issued repeatedly without a lasting solution. He told council, “I just wanna be able to walk out of my house in the morning and not see trash everywhere,” and asked the city to use available ordinances to remove the hazard.
Council acknowledged the complaint and directed community-image staff (“Joe”) to meet with the resident, discuss the issue and provide an update back to the council. The directive was framed as a staff follow-up rather than immediate enforcement action announced on the floor; no formal code-enforcement motion or special agenda item followed the comment.
The exchange was recorded during the citizen-input portion of the meeting, and councilors said staff would handle the next steps and report progress to the council.
