PAGE 10 - September 5, 2007
THE NEWSCASTER-Nature Coast News
Inglis Salvage Yard Gets "Tagged"
Community Events
After Trying to Fix Fence
Y-I Women's Club Set to Re-Open Thrift Shop
The Yankeetown-Inglis Woman's Club will begin their 2007-2008 season Sep. 4 at
Drew White, the owner of A & D Sal-
which time the Thrift Shop will open with some amazing deals. Its' hours are Tuesday and
vage, located at 25 Hudson St., Inglis is hav-
Friday from 10am-1pm and Wednesday from 12noon-3pm. The first regular meeting of the
ing legal problems with the zoning designa-
Club will occur Sep. 5 at 1:30pm at the clubhouse at #5 56th St. in Yankeetown. Thursday,
tion of his business, as well as the repair or
Sep. 6 sees the resumption of Bingo every Thursday night from 7pm-? with sandwiches,
replacement of a metal fence surrounding it.
drinks and desserts offered at 6pm.
These current problems are in addition to le-
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gal problems he's already resolved with an-
There is a fun time fishing tournament scheduled for Saturday October 6 from the Yankee-
other business he owns, White's Quality Au-
town Marina and hosted by the Nature Coast Sportsman's Club of Yankeetown, Florida. All
tos, located on U.S. Hwy. 19, with the state
of the money from drawings of sponsor products and food sales will be donated to Hospice
right-of way and a fence surrounding that
of Citrus County for use in their bereavement camps for children who have experienced a loss
property to shield it from the residential neigh-
of someone in their family. Official entry forms may be picked up from tournament official Bob
borhood behind it.
Webb at 447-0491
White said he leased the salvage yard
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for a year prior to purchasing it on Jan. 7, 2005.
After purchasing the business, he wanted to
To educate and help the average person understand how their bodily systems actually
improve the existing metal fence, so he spoke White put up this sign after the town put up
work, i.e., ph levels and foods that affect them; how the body systems are connected to
with Inglis Zoning Enforcement Officer, Bill their tag stopping any work onthe fence.
include the colon, small intestines, liver, lymphatic system, circulatory system, digestive
Sinopoli (who has since resigned). He said Mr. Sinopoli told him to engage an engineer, so
system and autointoxication; diet and how what we eat effects our health.
White consulted with an engineer who offered to design a new fence for $1200. "I wasn't
Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 10 AM and 7:00 PM. at the Inglis Community Center.Presented
going to pay $1200 for an existing fence there were no problems with," said White. He said
by Diane Steiden, M.A., NC
the zoning officer told him that a permit would not be issued unless the fence repairs were
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made by an engineer. "So I told him, 'I guess we can all keep looking at that same ratty fence,'"
Have you been a Yo-yo dieter? Have you tried crash dieting? Do you live a sedentary
said White. "There was nothing derelict about the fence, like fifty percent gone." He de-
lifestyle? Do you put garbage in your body? Do you experience chronic stress in your life?
scribed the metal fence as corrugated channel, reinforced with metal ribbons." White said,
Have you tried low carb diets that are difficult to follow and are extremely high in protein and
although the salvage yard fence is "grandfathered in, I figured I would just improve it at my
fat intake? Have you experienced the loss of muscle not fat loss in your previous "dieting"
own expense. To improve Inglis, so to speak."
efforts? After your "successful" diet, do you go back to old habits and regain weight as fat.
About six months later, White said, the zoning officer called him on the phone and
Thursday September 13, 2007 10 AM and 7:00 PM SEMINARS at the Inglis Community
asked him to come down to town hall and get a permit for the fence. White said he told Mr.
Center. Presented by Diane Steiden, M.A., NC
Sinopoli he would not pay an engineer such a large amount for the fence. He said Mr.
Sinopoli told him that he'd received a lot of complaints about the fence, and he wanted White
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to fix it. White said he agreed to repair the fence. He went to the zoning office and submitted
the required paperwork. He said the zoning officer told him to bring in pictures of the fence he
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wanted to erect. White said he took a picture of the fence at Damron's/LKQ, a junk yard in
Crystal River, and also located the metal he needed. White said that Sinopoli took the pic-
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tures to the Inglis Planning Commission. "They turned it down at the planning commission,
because it needed to be wood instead of steel." White said he then agreed to install a wood
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fence, however, the planning commission would not give him permission to put up the fence.
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White then ordered 50 panels of stockade wood fencing and started mending the
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existing fence on August 22. "As they are telling me all this," said White, "I told them I don't
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have to have a permit; I'm just fixing what's already there. I didn't mind paying them twenty
five bucks, but I'm not spending three years of my life running to the planning commission
and getting more pictures, and everything else, when all I've got to do is tack that old fence
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up and it's good - legally, it's good." I was just trying to appease the neighbors, and
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everybody else, and make it look a lot better. And Inglis decided to red tag it (stop work on it)
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on August 23."
White said a petition to stop work on the fence has around twenty-four signatures.
of germs & dust
"The only problem with it," said White, "Is there's only eight families that signed the peti-
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tion." White said several of the signatures were by husbands and wives, four signatures
were from Crystal River residents and two signatures were from Yankeetown residents. "I
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guarantee you that Ira Martin (street) in Crystal River has nothing to do with Inglis. Just
whoever they could get to sign the petition signed. After the town sent me a letter, July 5th,
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'cease all operations at the junkyard,' they were closing it down because it was non-confirm-
ing use. A junkyard has no zoning in Inglis." A salvage yard is not a permitted in the C-2
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Zoning District in which White's business is located.
According to White, his attorney, Dock Blanchard (of Ocala), told him that the
Bronson, you can get the aerial pictures showing that it's been a junkyard for thirty-some-
nonconforming use of his junkyard is "grandfathered in" (the C-2 Zoning District where his
thing years. As soon as my attorney sent them that, their attorney replied that they (White's
business is located), and it can't be shut down unless the electricity has been off for over
attorney) needed to check with the oldtimers in town as to how long that has been a junkyard.
eighteen months. "That's the grandfather in clause," explained White.
I know they talked to Donny Goode, which is a zoning building guy, and he told them it's
White says that stopping work on the fence and having him cease operations on
been a junkyard for forty years that he knows of. So that squashed their whole deal. They're
the junkyard are two separate issues he has with the town.
trying to do something they can't do. All this has turned personal for them. It's business to
"My attorney sends them letters," continued White. "I have overhead pictures
me, but it seems like it's personal to Roy Smith, Bill Lake and Bill Sinopoli - and Mayor Risher,
from 1980 where that (his business) was a junkyard - and 1990, and 2000. If you go to
for that matter."
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