Tuesday night Plymouth Plan Commission member Mark Gidley asked where action was on the Keith Gerrard property at 122 South Center Street.
City Attorney Sean Surrisi said, “The mayor met with him last week and I don’t have the details of that but I will follow up with him.”
Gidley said, “This has been going on for 11 months. The code says what? You have 48 hours and we have given him 11 months.” He continued, “The best thing I heard at a meeting last Wednesday night was, and I’ll paraphrase, ‘How you treat your downtown is a reflection of how you treat your entire community’.” Gidley said, “I think we are treating downtown terribly not to get that guy to clean up that mess.” He continued, “I don’t know why it takes 11 months to tell him to clean up that mess.”
Doug Feece, President of the Plan Commission said, “We let it go on for how many years and now we are starting holler about it? This has gone on for years across the street from my business.”
Gidley said, “If we can’t do one right out our own front door, then where can we do one? That’s right downtown where the Mayor can see it and the building inspector can see it and yet it goes on for 11 months.”
When Building Commission Keith Hammonds was asked what they, the Plan Commission could do he responded, “I’m no longer code enforcement so I don’t know.” He continued, “It took him how many years to put it there? You expect him to get it totally cleaned up in 11 months?” Hammonds stated, “The goal of the City of Plymouth is not to fine people and not to make them pay for us to clean it up but to get them to do it. The Mayor is working with him.”
The Plan Commission was happy to bring the issue to the forefront again in hopes of seeing additional action on the clean up process.
