By Jackie Seabolt
Enterprise Record
COOLEEMEE - After heated remarks from town residents, town board members here delayed action on the demolition of two condemned homes and removal of the fence at the park.
Last month the board approved the demolition of two vacant homes on Riverside Drive and approved a text amendment to the fire code to allow them to be burned.
Attorney Hank VanHoy told the board that the proper steps to notify all parties involved had not been taken and that the demolition of the homes should be postponed. “The order of condemnation has not been served on all parties. What you have done, I don’t know, but you can’t adopt an order of demolition because you have not served the order.”
Cooleemee resident Jerry King presented a list of “lots of empty homes”. “You picked out a house you want to destroy and there are some 38 empty that have been empty for 20 years. If you’re going to do it for one, you got to do it for everybody ...