From Habitat for Humanity Prince William County:
"FIFTY-NINE volunteer spots were filled by 39 volunteers over four days last week to help residents of Marumsco Mobile Home Park comply with zoning regulations by a mid-December deadline. We'll learn by the end of the week whether we were 100% successful at keeping the residents from receiving criminal citations (and we think we were)!
We will return to the community this Friday to do demo work that is needed at one home that was in the midst of zoning approval. And we'll return again after Christmas to build sheds outside of the flood plain. Please sign up to help or to bring lunch for the volunteers!
Take a look at the slide show to see the volunteers at work last week. Sign up to volunteer after Christmas on our Volunteer Calendar. We're planning for 12/22, 12/29, 12/30, 1/4, 1/5, and 1/6.We've raised the funds to buy 12 sheds but have now received approval to build 22. Can you help us get there? Our new goal to purchase 10 more sheds is $3,000!"
A concerned citizen notified officials in the Prince William County zoning office that they felt there were building violations in the Marumsco Mobile Home Park. Because the County had received a complaint, they were obligated to investigate. In the end, the County levied 39 citations in the community of 45 homes. The violations were ones that had occurred primarily out of necessity…structures were added over the years that made the residents living arrangements more suitable to their family size or provided storage for the tools of their livelihoods. However, in many cases the structures were added after the flood plain was designated. And they were not allowable in the flood plain.
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