Ordinance is needed

To The Eagle:

I hope most of you are able to see the front page article in The Longview Daily news on Friday regarding Wahkiakum County wanting public input on a proposal for a junk ordinance.

There are 2 meetings coming up, May 15, 6:30 at Johnson Park in Rosburg, and May 21, 6:30 at the courthouse. I urge everyone to attend these meetings and let the commissioners know you care.

I have always been pro real property rights and it is something I have advocated for, for many years. I hope people will not see this as an infringement on those rights. In fact, it is quite the opposite.

This is an attempt for the county to have some control over just those very few who are abusing their property rights.

This isn't about zoning, it isn't about homeowners associations, it isn't about what color you paint your house; please don't let the slippery slope argument get in the way.

I see it is a process where rational people can draft an ordinance that will not affect anyone in this county that isn't already affecting the rest of us.

I know in the past people have said, "one man's trash is another man's treasure" .... Yeah, I know, I get it. But when one man's trash is seeping sewage in the river, leaving oil slicks behind after floods, having so much trash they can't even park their own vehicles without trespassing or encroaching; plus literally suing their neighbors because they can't turn around, I think it's time we come up with a reasonable ordinance.

Lori Scott

Westend Wahkiakum