After being cited by Charlotte County Code Enforcement, the FEMA trailers stored on Punta Gorda Airport property could stay there until January.
In late May, two properties owned by the Punta Gorda Airport were cited for junk while storing disaster relief trailers brought there after Hurricane Ian.
WATCH our May report about the citations against the airport from Charlotte County Community Correspondent Victoria Scott.
Punta Gorda Airport gets cited
Since then, FOX 4 has had our team of Charlotte County Community Correspondents keeping an eye on this story to follow through on the outcome.
One property, located on Cheney Way, is leased to FEMA by the airport. Code Enforcement wanted the trailers stored on that property to be removed within 30 days. Tuesday, Charlotte County told our Punta Gorda Community Correspondent Alex Orenczuk said the citation against the property will likely be dropped, and FEMA has until the end of the year to remove the trailers.
“That mission, we’ve been informed, has been extended by the federal government and the state,” said Shaun Cullinan, Charlotte County Planning and Zoning Official. “So, they’re in phase two of it now, which is essentially as people are leaving the trailers, they are bringing them back there and they are refurbishing them and disposing of them in some way.”