KIMA complaint spurs action against weedy Terrace Heights gas station
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TERRACE HEIGHTS, Wash. -- You complained about an old gas station overrun with weeds and KIMA is taking action for you to get answers.
We get calls regularly about the old boarded up Shell Station in Terrace Heights that's right down the street from our studio.
The county told us it couldn't do anything because no one filed a formal complaint. So, KIMA did.
County Codes enforcement officers took a look and told the bank that owns the foreclosed property to clean up the mess.
Neighbors want to see it happen.
"It's almost to the point where I want to go over there and pull out the weeds and that's not my job or my responsibility to be cleaning up other people's messes," Andrew Thompson, who lives across the street from the gas station.
The county says it's a 'nuisance property,' but it isn't a high priority.
There's no deadline for the bank to do the work. We will stay on top of it.
We get calls regularly about the old boarded up Shell Station in Terrace Heights that's right down the street from our studio.
The county told us it couldn't do anything because no one filed a formal complaint. So, KIMA did.
County Codes enforcement officers took a look and told the bank that owns the foreclosed property to clean up the mess.
Neighbors want to see it happen.
"It's almost to the point where I want to go over there and pull out the weeds and that's not my job or my responsibility to be cleaning up other people's messes," Andrew Thompson, who lives across the street from the gas station.
The county says it's a 'nuisance property,' but it isn't a high priority.
There's no deadline for the bank to do the work. We will stay on top of it.
