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do,a~r ~~ d, Orange County Health Department b° u sx Jonathan E.' Klein, Chair Orange County Board of Health Richard E. Whiffed Human Services Center 300 W. Tryon Street, P.O. Box 8181 Hillsborough, N.C. 27278 Telephone: (919) 245-2411 Fax: (919) 644-3007 Rosemary L. Summers, MPH, DrPH Janet FI. Southerland, Vice Chair Health Director Orange Courtly Board of Health O,^~~ {tp~~' ~ ~ A C ~0 ~ ~e w P ~$ a o~ w.x.tw.o. rwmew+x~ Southern Human Service Center 2501 Homestead Road Chapel Hill, N:C. 27516 May 22, 2001 Telephone: (919) 968-2022 Fax: (919) 968-2013 To: Orange County Board of Commissioners Through: John Link, County Manager From: Rosemary Summers, Health Director Re: L & W Mobile Home Pazk This letter is to ask your assistance in expediting a matter that has public implications for a group of residents of Orange County. Earlier this month, the Board of Health heard an appal by L & W Enterprises, Inc. regarding the order by Environmental. Health to vacate fourteen spaces in the L & W Mobile Home Pazk by May 19, 2001. Tom Konsler, the Environmental Health Supervisor sent this notice after confirmation that raw sewage continues to surface and pond on the ground. This order was in addition to the seven spaces that were vacated in an earlier order. In an eazlier memorandum to you dated. March 13, we reported that all seven of the residents in the first order had found alternate housing. Anew order to vacate an additional fourteen spaces by May 19, 2001 was sent to Mr. Wayne Paschall of L & W Enterprises on Mazch 19, 2001 by Environmental Health. The residents of the mobile home pazk were notified the same day the order was sent to Mr. Paschall. Robert Hornik, attorney far L & W Enterprises, filed an appeal on that order on Apri117, 2001. Board of Health Hearing Officers heard the appeal on Apri130 and reported to the Boazd of Health at its regular meeting on May 17, 2001. During this appeal process, the date required for action (in this case vacating the fourteen spaces) is suspended for the period of the appeal. Once the Board of Health makes a final determination on the appeal, a new date to vacate would be based on the remaining time in the original order. In this case that would be approximately 30 days. In L & W's appeal, they requested additional time to "finalize whatever arrangements or agreements must be made between those municipal entities [Orange County and the City of Durham] to allow the extension of Durham's sanitary sewer system to serve the areas of Orange County which includes the mobile home park." L & W maintained at the hearing that Mr. Paschall, as the owner of the mobile home park, is willing to finance the construction of the connection. Ix1 addition, Mr. Paschall maintains that vacating the fourteen spaces as ordered by Environmental.Health will make the mobile home park financially unfeasible to maintain and that he would be forced to close the entire park. At my request, Paul Thames has been in contact with Katherine Kalb of Durham to clarify the process and to verify the possibility of connection in this regazd. Mr. Thames reported that there is no apparent barrier to connection other than securing the appropriate governmental approvals and the financing of the force main and lift station by the owner of the mobile home pazk. Chapel Hill Durham Mebane (919) 968-4501 (919) 685-7333 (336) 227-2031