Repeated efforts to clean up trash and debris from two parcels
of vacant land at Dunne Avenue and Condit Road haven’t succeeded
because someone keeps dumping trash at the site, according to a
real estate broker.
MORGAN HILL
Repeated efforts to clean up trash and debris from two parcels of vacant land at Dunne Avenue and Condit Road haven’t succeeded because someone keeps dumping trash at the site, according to a real estate broker.
The vacant site, which is comprised of 7.8- and 5.3 acre parcels owned by China Bay Co., had been on the Times’ “Eyesore Watch” for two months when the city’s code enforcement office, housed within the Building Division, sent a letter to a P.O. box in Cupertino, the only known address for China Bay, on Nov. 14. The letter stated the company violated the nuisance provisions of the city code by allowing the area to be unkempt.
The broker, who wished to remain anonymous, said he sold the parcels to China Bay Co. 27 years ago. He said he contacted the owner, who lives in Hong Kong, through the owner’s brother in Los Altos. The broker said he hired a laborer to clean the site on Oct. 20 and 25, but the site was littered again when the city sent out the Nov. 14 letter. The site was cleaned again on Nov. 26, but less than a week later it was dumped on again, the broker said.
“We first noticed it was trash blowing from fast food (restaurants) but this looks like someone dumped garbage there,” he said. “There was brown and blue napkins.”
Last Sunday, the broker said he paid Steve Monses, a local contractor, $122 to clean the area again. The next day someone “dumped a load of newspapers” on the site and it hasn’t been cleaned since, he said.
“We think it’s deliberately being done,” the broker said of the trash dumped. “I think someone is targeting the sites.”
The broker said he was instructed by China Bay’s owner to post signs and is considering putting in a fence. Local merchants have been asked by the city to keep an eye out on who may be dumping trash and “to make sure that their trash bins aren’t overflowing,” he said.
The broker said he also contacted a friend who contacted the police department and was advised they would monitor the area, but no report was taken.
Now, the broker and China Bay are turning to the community to “help police this thing,” the broker said.
PROPERTY CLEANUP
Any member of the public who wants to see property cleaned up needs to file a complaint with the city’s Code Enforcement Office. A complaint form in PDF format can be downloaded from the city’s Web site, www.morgan-hill.ca.gov. If you know of a local eyesore, send an e-mail with the address to ed******@*************es.com. The Times will investigate it and if report is valid will place it on its Eyesore Watch list.
