APPEAL FILED OVER MOBILE-HOME PARK : STATE OPERATIONS PERMIT AT ISSUE BECAUSE OF SEWAGE VIOLATIONS.Byline: Amy Collins Daily News Staff Writer An appeal was filed Wednesday with the state to prevent the closure of the Hacienda hacienda also called estancia (Argentina and Uruguay) or fazenda (Brazil) In Latin America, a large landed estate. The hacienda originated in the colonial period and survived into the 20th century. Vasquez Mobilehome Park for more than 40 sewage violations. ``It's unlikely he's going to lose his permit to operate in March,'' said Lucinda Dustin, the assistant director of external affairs for the state Department of Housing and Community Development. There is still a warrant out for the arrest of the park's owner, Mitchell Salmonson, 63, a resident of Rancho Palos Verdes Rancho Pal·os Ver·des A city of southern California on a channel of the Pacific Ocean west of Long Beach. Population: 42,100. , for not appearing in court in November in the case. Reached by telephone at his home Tuesday, Salmonson said the mobile-home park was fraught with problems when he bought it in 1989 and he has tried to repair the problems, including the broken pipes that still leak raw sewage on portions of the property. ``I haven't done anything wrong. They call me a slumlord slum·lord n. An owner of slum property, especially one that overcharges tenants and allows the property to deteriorate. [slum + (land)lord.] . I am not a slumlord,'' Salmonson said. The appeal was faxed to the state Wednesday morning by Don West, the park's chief executive, hired three months ago to solve the violations. Dustin said a date for the hearing has not been set. She said the first sewage complaints were received in April 1994, and a subsequent series of inspections documented other violations as well. There allegedly were 296 violations spotted during a complete inspection in May 1996 of both the park and the separately owned mobile homes. West, a paralegal paralegal n. a non-lawyer who performs routine tasks requiring some knowledge of the law and procedures, employed by a law office or who works free-lance as an independent for various lawyers. investigator, said Wednesday he is having difficulty making the repairs fast enough because he is not being reimbursed by Salmonson and because residents of nine of the 31 mobile homes in the park are not paying rent. ``We can't fix the place unless we have money coming in,'' he said. West said he has been taking money out of his own pocket to hasten has·ten v. has·tened, has·ten·ing, has·tens v.intr. To move or act swiftly. v.tr. 1. To cause to hurry. 2. the repairs. But Dustin said West has still not applied to get a permit to repair the sewer system Noun 1. sewer system - facility consisting of a system of sewers for carrying off liquid and solid sewage sewage system, sewage works facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the , which operates on septic tanks septic tank, underground sedimentation tank in which sewage is retained for a short period while it is decomposed and purified by bacterial action. The organic matter in the sewage settles to the bottom of the tank, a film forms excluding atmospheric oxygen, and . State and county officials said it is not clear what will happen to the residents if the operating permit is revoked. An official at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich's office said the next step is up to the state. ``We will monitor this carefully and look into every aspect of the follow-up procedures. But until the state acts. . . we really don't have any authority,'' said an aide to Antonovich. |
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