Sounds like Katie isn't getting enough beauty sleep...

From Lynn's blog regarding the clean-up on South L Street yesterday:

Unfortunately or not, depending on your point of view, we live in a society that respects the rights of private property owners. Even with our "beefed up" code enforcement laws on the books, the city just cannot enter a property whenever it wants to and address a problem. A property owner must be offered due process to address items related to the condition present on the property. Otherwise, the city can be accused of trespassing, unreasonable searches and seizing of property. Someone might call the city Monday and ask where all their tires went. You multiply this by the number of properties in the city that are vacant and/or is some sort of foreclosure limbo and you have what amounts to an intractable problem. At this point, intervention by neighbors and other concerned citizens is the only way to accomplish things. The work done yesterday was in cooperation with the firm that was "managing" this particular property.

It doesn't help to have malcontents, showcased regularly on the other blog, whine and yell to desparate local media outlets saying "look at that mess over there!" And Lake Worth is not the only south Florida city with these type of problems. Ms. McGiveron prefers to let them eat cake rather than roll up her sleeves and help with the situation.

How is the Sunset property mediation going, by the way?