Although news of growth within the local business community is a sign of good news, another type of growth is becoming a nuisance in Yazoo City.
Building Inspector and Code Enforcement Officer Russ Carter said overgrown properties are a problem within the city this summer season.
“It’s all over town,” Carter said, during the Board of Mayor and Aldermen meeting. “It’s not just in one spot of town. We are working on it and giving people warnings.”
The city’s ordinance states that all yards must be cut and no more than 10 inches high.
“This avoids unnecessary infestations of mosquitoes, rodents, snakes and other animals that can hide in the grass and weeds,” Carter said. “Tall grass can become a safety hazard to those who live around it.”
Carter said many of the overgrown properties belong to out-of-towners and tax sales buyers.
“That is the primary issue is that they live elsewhere,” Carter said. “Some of them are in town. A lot of times, just the warning alone gets the job done if they are here in town. But the ones out of town, tax sales folks…I did get one of the tax people to start cutting their property. But I have stayed on them.”
In business growth, Carter said the Bank of Yazoo City branch expansion and the new MEA Medical Clinic on Fifteenth Street are welcoming signs of growth. He also announced the dirt work behind Wendy’s is the site of a future children’s medical clinic.
