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This building has overgrown trees, grass, the fence is not secure/installed properly, and now has graffiti spray painted on the front. This is an eyesore and needs to be maintained if no new businesses are going to be moved in or if the building is not going to be razed. Please have this addressed as this building already looks bad just sitting there.

Mr. Jeff Look
City of Gainesville, Code Enforcement        
PO BOX 490
Station 10A
Gainesville, Florida 32627-0490
 
Re:  4322 NW 20th Terrace, Gainesville, Florida 32605
 
Mr. Look,
Thank you and your officers for helping out on this residence. We have been complaining to Code Enforcement (CE) since 2015 about the residents in this house.  They constantly park commercial vehicles, equipment, trailers in the street and in their yard, and keep commercial machinery stored under a tarp.  CE has come out on our complaints about the resident running a commercial business from this property and the cases are closed because apparently you can have all of the commercial equipment stored on your property or in the street as long as it’s used for “personal reasons” as the resident’s claim.  Therefore after the last go around with CE and the trailers and commercial machinery they claim is for personal use, the name of the resident whose truck was stored at this address without a valid tag (See picture "Code Enforcement - CE-18-00114) was Googled and through Google, it was found that they do have a business but not registered at this address.  Two business names with the name Shawn M. Ingram came up through Sunbiz.org :  C&S Plumbing, Inc. – which explains the digging equipment and trailers as complained about before; and the second company name of The Traveling Toolbox LLC – which explains the trailers with the tool boxes attached to them that are there every day after 5:30pm.  They are claiming the principal address on both businesses as a residence in Waldo, which is probably not true or a secondary residence as they are constantly having these trailers and equipment parked outside of their residence.  You can look back at all the cases (CE-15-00413, CE-15-02699, CE16-00686, CE-16-00770, CE-17-00196, CE-17-00194, CE-18-00046, CE-18-00114, CE-18-00289) and see the equipment, trailers, materials they use and store at this residence and can make an obvious conclusion that they are running a business out of this house without the proper permits.  I have attached a few of those pictures for you to review.
 
Please have this addressed as we can no longer stand having to always see this equipment and drive around trailers blocking the right of way.  This has gone on long enough and now you should have sufficient information, beyond a reasonable doubt, that they are running a business. 
 
Thanks,
Concerned neighborhood citizen.