At a meeting Tuesday the development authority heard from Gary Hopkins with Plastek Werks about the need for enforcement of covenant violations.
The authority advised that since the county doesn't own any property in the park there is nothing they can do.
Development Authority attorney Carl Free said originally the county's Industrial Building Authority asked the Development Authority to be the marketing arm for the park. Since that time they have been assisting the property owners in different ways, but Free says the county doesn't have property interest there it's really up the individual property owners to pull together.
He addedd, "as a Development Authority we are charged with development of the county and we want to see the Industrial Parks succeed, but the best way for that to occur it seems, to address those particular issues, is for the owners themselves to forma an association."
Hopkins was also informed that in addition to covenant violations the association will soon have deal with another problem. As of December 31 the county will no longer pay for the street lighting in the park.
White County Manager Carol Jackson says after review of some of the county power bills she discovered that the county has been paying $400 per month for the street lights in the park since 1996. The county sold the last parcel in the park in 2003 and the county has continued to pick up the tab on the lights, but that's something the can't continue to do.
Jackson said, " I just don't think it is far to the tax payers of White County to light that area, so we're looking at turning that over to some sort of association that these people will have to form, or just stop paying the bill."
http://accesswdun.com/article/2010/10/233044