Citizen Letter: Binford Road 1.14.2024 (update)

To: Dear Sheriff Scardina, Chief Naugle and Deputy Thompson

We appreciate Deputy Thompson’s efforts on Binford Rd. 

Today, I took the below photos:

1) The RV on the city side of the road needs to be removed.  I will call it in again to NPD.  If you need me to have members of the public call it in too, I can have that done.

2) A dog (healer breed) is tied to some junk and is unattended.  I cannot see if he has food or water.  I no longer call the MHS, as Nancy who is a leader of the MHS wrote to me, “The people who live on Binford Rd treat their animals like family.”   I don’t tie family members up to junk and I don’t know anyone who does. 

3) I asked the man to not have his two dogs defecate and urinate into the wetlands.  I purposely was on the phone with Dispatch when I stayed this so it would be on record.  The man clearly didn’t think he was doing anything wrong by being in the wetlands with his dog. 

I am respectfully asking again for the laws to be followed on Binford Rd.  No matter the hardships or painful  backstories of many of the residents living on Binford, that does not give them the right to neglect animals, have them defecate in the wetlands, litter, dispose of their human waste wherever they like and park wherever they do choose.

On a happy note, after church today, a woman said she appreciated all my social media posts on Binford Rd. I hear that all the time in the community.  Time for me to crank it up again.

Peace,

Citizen Letter to Mr. Lucan July 30

To: Eric Lucan <[email protected]>

Subject: Binford Road

Hi Eric –

Well, week after week after week I see the crime report of assaults, vandalism and theft on Binford Road. It appears, since you and I talked, nothing has changed.

You and I discussed requiring people to not have anything hanging around outside the RVs. There is still lots of material outside the RVs.

You told me contact was going to be made with local RV parks about having some people going there and the county paying six months rent for them. Has that happened?

I was saddened to see the article on the dogs being chained up out there.

It really seems that the County is just waiting for the problem to disappear or that those who want new locations for the unhoused, and for the environmental issues to be taken care of, will go away and forget about this. I don’t believe that will happen.

What are the concrete plans at this time for the RV’ers to be relocated?

What are the plans to not let the marsh get more environmentally damaged?

What are the plans to take care of the dogs that are chained up or allowed to run loose?

All dogs on the Rush Creek trail have to be leashed, and if not oftentimes MCOS is out there giving tickets.