Property Line

Napier to seek re-election LANCASTER - State Rep. Lonnie Napier, R-Lancaster, will seek re-election to the 36th District House seat he has held since 1984. Napier has served on several committees in the General Assembly, including appropriations and revenue, transportation, state government, tobacco task force and veterans affairs. According to Napier, "Service on these important committees allows me to make things happen for the people of Garrard and Madison counties that would otherwise be impossible.

County planners debated at a meeting this month whether applicants who are reconfiguring lots should be required to bring the lots into compliance with all existing regulations or whether they should allow some noncompliance if the changes are improvements. The discussion came at the April 9 meeting of the Jessamine County-City of Wilmore Joint Planning Commission. One of the two plat applications that sparked the debate is a reconfiguration of two plats at  1515 and 1527 Woods Road in Nicholasville.

The Danville Board of Ethics will hear ethics complaints against the city's code enforcement officer but not the city manager. At a preliminary inquiry Tuesday, the board ruled it has jurisdiction in the grievance brought by Irvine Jones against Code Enforcement Officer Tom Broach and City Manager Paul Stansbury over their alleged refusal to properly address Jones' repeated complaints about weeds growing over the property line of his Waveland Avenue...

Dear Editor, Well if that don't beat all! Ed Hays finally said something I can agree with. "You never lose until you stop trying," in the Sunday Advocate. I have been trying to get the city to enforce the nuisance ordinance on property beside me for seven years now. Ed Hays has told me I can cut any weed growth that comes across the property line. I should not have to do that, because the weeds are growing in violation of city ordinance in the first place. I have not stopped trying, nor will I ever.

Dear Editor, What is wrong with code enforcement in Danville, Ky.? The city has a nuisance ordinance covering the excessive growth of grass, weeds, other growth and the accumulation of rubbish. The ordinance is very plain and simple. There are no big words, and it is only one page long covering this subject. It's easy to read. I believe a property in town is in violation of this ordinance. The city of Danville refuses to enforce compliance on this property for some unknown reason.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how the complaint may have been dealt with. NOVEMBER 2 1:06 a.m., a 28-year-old female has been given an unknown substance and is losing consciousness on Hope Street near the stockyards; arrest made.

If I want to institute legal proceedings against my neighbor for violating my property rights because he erected a fence five feet inside my property line, I can't just go to a sympathetic judge and get a judgment and expect the judgment to stand. I must go to court and prove my damages. I can't even begin to count the number of times over the past several years that some judge has decreed a reference to God or some other action that is construed to be religious in nature to be a violation of someone's rights.

STANFORD - Stanford residents found out the hard way Saturday that history isn't necessarily rock solid. Sometimes it can disappear seemingly overnight. But what was once ignored has now become a city landmark missed by many. A local landmark, a carriage stepping stone and hitching post, was moved Saturday from its corner on Depot and Main streets. The stone has rested downtown since General Sherman's march to the sea. City Council member Scottie Ernst took the rock home to clean and preserve it in his yard, he said.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how police may have dealt with the complaint.   JULY 23   1:07 a.m., report of attempted burglary that just occurred at South Fifth Street apartment; no descriptions are available.

An aerospace industry manufacturer is considering Danville as the home of a $32.6 million expansion of its Akron, Ohio, operations. The company would initially bring 46 jobs paying an average of $14.39 per hour. Boyle County Industrial Foundation President Joe Gibson confirmed in a news release Wednesday that Aircraft Braking Systems Corp. is interested in a 28.8-acre site in the Hunt addition of the John Hill Bailey Industrial Park for a plant that would manufacture carbon brake discs for the airline industry.

County planners debated at a meeting this month whether applicants who are reconfiguring lots should be required to bring the lots into compliance with all existing regulations or whether they should allow some noncompliance if the changes are improvements. The discussion came at the April 9 meeting of the Jessamine County-City of Wilmore Joint Planning Commission. One of the two plat applications that sparked the debate is a reconfiguration of two plats at  1515 and 1527 Woods Road in Nicholasville.

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how police may have dealt with the complaint.   JULY 23   1:07 a.m., report of attempted burglary that just occurred at South Fifth Street apartment; no descriptions are available.

The Danville Board of Ethics will hear ethics complaints against the city's code enforcement officer but not the city manager. At a preliminary inquiry Tuesday, the board ruled it has jurisdiction in the grievance brought by Irvine Jones against Code Enforcement Officer Tom Broach and City Manager Paul Stansbury over their alleged refusal to properly address Jones' repeated complaints about weeds growing over the property line of his Waveland Avenue...

Editor's note: Taken from the Danville 911 records, the Police Blotter represents a history of the initial calls and the information used by the dispatcher to send officers to investigate complaints. It is not necessarily an indication of what the officer found upon arrival at the scene, or of how the complaint may have been dealt with. NOVEMBER 2 1:06 a.m., a 28-year-old female has been given an unknown substance and is losing consciousness on Hope Street near the stockyards; arrest made.

When we bought this farm 20 years ago, we were told by the realtor and by some Winchester residents that this property was haunted. I guess it would've put a lot of people off, but not me. It intrigued me and, from the day in July that we moved in, I have been acutely aware that we, indeed, are sharing our home with some long-established residents. It was something we rarely talked about, even with friends because, well, because we couldn't really prove their existence (or not)

As construction continues on a new Jessamine South Elkhorn Water District sewer line in northern Jessamine County, many residents along Vince and Ashgrove roads are wondering what financial impact it will have on them. Once the sewer line is completed, residents will have no choice but to connect to it0 if their property is within 120 feet of the sewer line, according to the county's mandatory sewer connection ordinance. According to the ordinance, "Owners of any house building or property used for human occupancy, employment, recreation or other purposes, which abut against any street, alley, right-of-way or any sanitary sewer easement are required, at the owner's expense, to install suitable toilet facilities therein, and to connect such facilities to the public sanitary sewer ... within 120 days of official notice to do so, providing the sewer is within 100 feet of the property line.

Dear Editor, Well if that don't beat all! Ed Hays finally said something I can agree with. "You never lose until you stop trying," in the Sunday Advocate. I have been trying to get the city to enforce the nuisance ordinance on property beside me for seven years now. Ed Hays has told me I can cut any weed growth that comes across the property line. I should not have to do that, because the weeds are growing in violation of city ordinance in the first place. I have not stopped trying, nor will I ever.

If I want to institute legal proceedings against my neighbor for violating my property rights because he erected a fence five feet inside my property line, I can't just go to a sympathetic judge and get a judgment and expect the judgment to stand. I must go to court and prove my damages. I can't even begin to count the number of times over the past several years that some judge has decreed a reference to God or some other action that is construed to be religious in nature to be a violation of someone's rights.

Dear Editor, What is wrong with code enforcement in Danville, Ky.? The city has a nuisance ordinance covering the excessive growth of grass, weeds, other growth and the accumulation of rubbish. The ordinance is very plain and simple. There are no big words, and it is only one page long covering this subject. It's easy to read. I believe a property in town is in violation of this ordinance. The city of Danville refuses to enforce compliance on this property for some unknown reason.

HUSTONVILLE - Lincoln County has a new man of the law. He's not hunting bank robbers or drug dealers, though. Lee Hodge has a soft spot for animals, and he's making sure Lincoln Countians treat them humanely. "These animals can't take care of themselves," he said. "They rely on us for everything. " Hodge is the new animal enforcement officer who recently was sworn in and given his scope of power. Hodge follows up on complaint calls, makes home visits, investigates animal cruelty cases and advises animal owners how to care for animals.