Lee County commissioners Tuesday unanimously approved measures that will require banks to register and care for abandoned or vacant homes.
As of Jan. 1, banks will be required to register abandoned homes that are either in foreclosure or bank owned.
Lehigh Acres residents assembled in commission chambers, sounding off in support of the ordinance, they say, will hold banks accountable for their properties.
But Commissioner Frank Mann stopped the fun before it started in the cartoons the Lehigh Acres residents made in support of the ordinance.
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I guess the commissioners don’t live anywhere that there are vacant lots. Those of us in Lehigh who take care of their properties are surrounded by overgrown lots. I regularly maintain the lots around my property initially for fire reasons but now for the appearance. I’ve noticed more neighbors doing the same. Maybe the banks could recruit some of us to do the same for their properties [for a smallfee of course] and get something going to make Lehigh more attractive. It would definitely discourage body dumping as well as trash dumping. Lately ,the atv’s have decided that my cleared areas are their new playground. We need better weekend enforcement by unmarked cars to catch a few operators and make an example. I believe there is an authorized park on SR82.