A Chesapeake, Virginia, homeowner was fined $50 after he failed to appear in court on July 8 to answer for a debris-filled yard that neighbors have called a junkyard, according to WAVY. Blair Hess now faces a civil charge of debris accumulation on his property on Tyre Neck Road. Now it’s up to the city to try and force a cleanup.
Neighbors near the 3300 block of Tyre Neck Road have complained that the yard has filled with furniture, mattresses, clothes, plastic bins, and other items spread across the front yard, driveway, and curb. The city has cited Hess under its debris accumulation code, section 62-2, and is now handling the matter as a civil violation. Residents told WAVY that the clutter has grown worse over the course of the last few months. Even fines have done nothing to change it.
Hess has offered his own account of how the property reached that state. He told WAVY earlier this year that he buys auctioned storage units and brings them home. Except this year, winter storms wrecked all of his goods before people could sift through the piles. He’s been working to clear the lot out on his own without the city’s input, however…