Talk about trashy neighbors.
Residents of a wealthy Los Angeles community are furious after their homes are buried under piles of trash.
“It’s a fire hazard. It’s filthy,” said Miriam Kosberg, whose family has owned the property directly behind the Fairfax dump since 1955. told the Los Angeles Times.
The median price range in the Fairfax neighborhood of Los Angeles is $3.42 million. According to Realtor.com.
“There’s trash up to the back fence. It’s been like that for years,” Kosberg added.
Residents complained that their lawns were barely visible, covered in white garbage bags, newspapers, clothing and cigarette boxes.
Meanwhile, the smell of decay wafts from the house, leaving neighbors concerned about what lies beneath the overgrown vegetation and accumulated debris.
“It’s unsanitary,” a woman who has lived in the neighborhood for more than 20 years told the publication on condition of anonymity.
The woman revealed that she had been complaining about the property since the early 2000s.
And since July, the Department of Building Safety has filed dozens of complaints, which are still under investigation, city records show. A compliance order was also issued in November.
“We are disgusted, but we are compassionate. In a perfect world, he would get help and someone would make his environment better for him,” she told the property owner. talked about.
On Wednesday, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, along with Fairfax City Councilwoman Katie Yaroslavsky, visited the home and declared a “public health emergency.”
“As you know, we are both new. We have been following this since last night to find out where the complaints were filed and what happened in the process,” Basu added.
Raymond Gaon has owned the property since the mid-1990s, according to public records.
He was ordered to remove the trash in 2014, and three years later, the city filed two misdemeanor criminal charges for noncompliance until the case was dismissed in 2019.
