The City of Biloxi will be giving formal notice to Point Cadet property owners on Friday of plans to begin removing storm debris from privately owned residential property east of Oak Street and south of the CSX Railway.
Full-page notices listing parcel numbers, addresses and owners of record of nearly 500 parcels are scheduled to be published in the Friday editions of The Bay Press and The Sun Herald, and signs will be erected on parcels on Point Cadet in the next several days.
The notices — which are printed in English, Vietnamese and Spanish – notify property owners that they may either sign a right-of-entry agreement allowing city contractors to remove debris from their Point Cadet property, or they may appeal the city’s plan at a City Council meeting on Oct. 28 at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall.
Although the advertisements list both residential and commercial properties on Point Cadet, no determination has been made on whether the city will actually remove debris from commercial property.
Notices for property owners in the Eagle Point community will be published Oct. 21, followed by a meeting to hear any appeals from those residents on Nov. 4 at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall. Notices for property owners in the Holly Hills area will be published Oct. 28, followed by a meeting to hear any appeals from those residents on Nov. 11 at 1:30 p.m. at City Hall.
“We’ve started the mechanism that allows us to legally go onto residential property on Point Cadet,” Mayor A.J. Holloway said. “What this means is that we’ll be going on to those properties that we consider a threat to public safety or public health. This does not mean that we’ll haul debris from all private property, even if the property owner has signed a right of entry agreement.
“We’re going to do everything we can, but if people have the ability to remove the debris themselves, or at least move it to the curb, we hope that they’ll do that, if they haven’t done so already.”
FEMA plans to reimburse the city the millions of dollars it will cost to remove debris from private residential property and public rights of way, but no determination has been made whether the city will be able to remove debris from commercial property.
To see the public notice scheduled to be published Friday, click here.
To see the right-of-entry form, click here.
To see the right of entry and condemnation form, click here.
