A past hoarder whose attempt to rebuild a burnt-out mobile home is not the only resident the city is targeting in a Prince George trailer park.
A stop work order has been issued against a second project and the city is preparing a letter regarding fire separation at the Sunrise Valley Mobile Home Park on Lansdowne Road, city spokesman Mike Davis confirmed Friday.
His comments were in response to a complaint from a Sunrise Valley resident relayed to the city by The Citizen on Friday following a story on Mike Riemer, who is best known as the owner of the so-called Pack Rat palace on Fisk Avenue.
After a court battle, the city was given permission to remove material Riemer had stockpiled in his carport after running out of room in his home. Riemer has since sold the house and is now living in an apartment but had also bought a trailer that was gutted by a June 12 fire that remains standing.
In response to concerns raised by a neighbour, the city said it will issue a stop work order to Reimer, who failed to secure a building permit before starting to build a shed and an expansion to the home.
But Reimer has not been the only problem.
In an e-mail to The Citizen, a reader who lives at Sunrise said there are other people building illegal additions, doing unauthorized electrical work and building against other people's trailers and added things turned for the worse when absentee landlords took over the property.
Reimer, meanwhile, said he has met with city officials and was told he must submit engineer-approved plans before he can proceed with construction.
Reimer said he sold his Fisk Avenue home for about $159,000 but between paying off the mortgage and the costs associated with the legal battle against the city, he walked away with much less and had budgeted about $15,000 for his new home at Sunrise Valley.
Reimer added the work had been put on hold while he seeks to regain his disability payments from the Ministry of Social Services, which were recently cut off.
