Every city has rules for keeping the community clean, but those often come with loopholes that can be taken advantage of by opportune residents.
In Marion, inoperable vehicles are to be screened within a property, but even that has room for people to take advantage, police chief Clinton Jeffrey said.
“The ordinance just says ‘screened off,’ so if you strung up a bunch of tarps it would probably look worse,” he said. “Then there are places that have gone to tin or giant concrete blocks to screen it off.”
(Read more: Marion County RECORD)