Hurricanes Helene and Milton damaged hundreds of homes in Redington Shores and Redington Beach, two adjacent beach towns in Pinellas County.
Neighbors say those storms made existing problems caused by chronic code violators even worse, hurting their quality of life and bringing down their property values.
“When you come in off Gulf Blvd. into this particular neighborhood, you have to go through a very blighted area,” said Bennet Walling, one of four Redington Shores neighbors who spoke with the I-Team about their concerns related to junk and overgrown yards in their neighborhood…