Molino Man Seeks County’s Help To Put Mobile Home On His Land

January 8, 2010

A Molino man is seeking the Escambia Commission’s help to place a mobile home for his son on property he says has been owned by his family for 60 years.

hassebrock11.jpgBennie Hassebrock told commissioners that he has tried for four years to get approval for a mobile home on property, located on Highway 97 just south of Highway 29. The property’s zoning does not allow a mobile home.

“Everywhere I go, they tell me I can’t do this,” Hassebrock said Thursday night. “I’m against trailers myself, but I’m trying to live within our means, and our means can’t build him a house right now.”

“He got caught up when the zoning map was thrown down,” District 5 Commissioner Kevin White said. “It’s one of those where you’ve got a trailer across the street and its OK, but his zone does not allow it.” White said the county’s rezoning fees would be hardship for Hassebrock.

At White’s request, Lloyd Kerr, directory of planning and zoning, will return to the commission on February 4 with a recommendation to rezone the property and waive the rezoning fees based upon hardship.

Pictured: Bennie Hassebrock addresses the Escambia County Commission Thursday night.

Comments

54 Responses to “Molino Man Seeks County’s Help To Put Mobile Home On His Land”

  1. David Huie Green on January 13th, 2010 12:12 am

    REGARDING:
    “It is then Kevin Whites job to do what best represents the MAJORITY in that area. This is how democracy works. ”

    In a true democracy, the people decide every matter brought up.

    In a representative democracy, the people elect people to make wise decisions without taking a poll before every decision. it limits participation but frees the people to deal with other matters as long as the representatives are decent.

    There is one more limitation which should be considered and that is the limitation of the power of the majority over the rights of the individual. People have rights which the majority can not just take away. People should not be able to take away property without just compensation. Property isn’t really owned if the owner can be stopped from using it because his neighbors don’t like what he plans.

    Zoning helps the rich because they can have things rezoned for their benefit. It can hurt the poor because they can be forced to live with what are often arbitrary rules.

    I don’t know anybody involved in this particular situation but the attitude that
    WE CAN DO WHATEVER WE LIKE BECAUSE THERE’S MORE OF US THAN THERE IS OF YOU
    just doesn’t sit well.

    That is simply not what our country is supposed to stand for.

    Many people left other countries and the cities because they didn’t like being pushed around and then the pushers followed them with more rules and regulations. They frequently say things like, “That’s not how we did it back in Pensacola” or “…in Massachusetts” or “That’s not how they do it in France,” or “…in Yemin,” as if that matters.

    All those places are wonderful places. People who want to live like that should feel free to do so.

    Trailer, mansion, mud hut, geodesic dome, wood frame home, concrete block house, styrofoam LEGO home, brick, brick veneer, hay bale walls or something nobody’s considered yet should not matter if it’s built safely. (In fact, how can you safely build on a barrier island? You can’t yet many do build there and we get to finance their insurance. Almost off subject, though.)

    Too many people don’t consider a house a home. They consider it an investment to be sold when the market is right. Fine by me but then they want to fix the market by telling their neighbors what THEY can do and have. Not so fine.

    Of course government has a vested interest in maintaining all property values as high as possible since they tax them on value. There have been cities who set up a zoning structure which made it impossible to have anyone live there who was not a millionaire but then they couldn’t get people in because the masters’ servants couldn’t afford a place to stay. No room for plumbers, teachers, nurses, sanitation workers.

    When you tell people how they can not live, you are telling them how they MUST live. They have to live by your rules or not at all.

    David thinking there is no shortage of dictators

  2. old goat on January 12th, 2010 7:54 pm

    Everyone better get their head out of their butt and look at what the Gov. is doing. or we are not going to have our great America as we have known it for over two hundred years
    thanks to somebodys great president and his followers.–Reed, Barney franks,Clinton, and other’s.

  3. Goober on January 12th, 2010 1:16 pm

    I’d like to see commissioners discuss an issue without speaking about what kind of person the man is.

    Just like the botched bid process. Rawson is a great guy (that built an illegal borrow pit and called it a catfish pond, but he can throw a great fundraiser) so let’s throw out the bid process so he can fix his “mistake” now that he knows the bid amounts and reduce it by 100,000.00.

  4. Anonymous on January 12th, 2010 8:12 am

    The issue at hand isn’t about the type of man Bennie Hassebrock is or his son. It’s not about whether trailors or good or bad. Its about zoning. His area isn’t zoned for trailors. Zoning in general is not a bad thing, it keeps bars and strip clubs from operating beside our schools. Mr. Hassebrock’s area is zoned a certain way and he is using his rights as a American Citizen to speak against it and try to change it. The people in the same area who are affected by this zoning have the right to do the same. It is then Kevin Whites job to do what best represents the MAJORITY in that area. This is how democracy works. We don’t all always get what we want but we have the right to try.

  5. FAT MAN OF mCdAVEY on January 11th, 2010 9:14 pm

    I’m the “FAT MAN of McDavey”
    And let me tell you all. I have lived in a trailer all my married life and it’s the best we could do and can do. I proud of this place of mine. My boys don’t have to do nothin. If it was me Bennie I think I would just go on about my business and put the trailer there and just keep on keeping on. Hey neighbors of Benny. how about helping him a little.
    a friend from about 15 miles up the road
    FM of McD

  6. NF on January 11th, 2010 8:51 pm

    for David Green. I’m with you on this.

  7. hey on January 11th, 2010 9:02 am

    I dont think they have plans just to put some old trailer over there they would like it to look very nice as well.It should possibly block the veiw of the other one that doesnt look so beautiful!!!! maybe all the people who are worried about it looking so terrible and have comments about what it and the yard should look like go landscape it and build a deck and whatever else you think it needs to be up to your standards!!!!!!

  8. David Huie Green on January 10th, 2010 10:19 pm

    I wonder if there people who don’t know what quotation marks mean

    more likely just didn’t notice them

  9. David Huie Green on January 10th, 2010 10:17 pm

    “David Hule Green: You sound like a fine, up-and-coming home owners association Nazi.”

    How you figure?

    David, believer in live and let live

  10. Take your stand on January 10th, 2010 7:26 pm

    Mr. Hassebrock I truly hope that you will WIN your case with the County Commissioners. As a TAX paying individual it seems that ALL OUR County Commissioners wants to do and must have time to do ride around and cause grief to family’s when trying to help other family members have a place to live. Your place looks GREAT and manicured.
    Not like living around people that don’t care what their property look like. Business trucks everywhere, repairing of the truck, parking trucks on County right a way and yes It dosen’t do any good to call CODE ENFORCEMENT OR ENVIROMENTAL PEOPLE OUT!!! Go south on NICHOLSON DR and you have to be contented with neighbors whos yard and house NEEDS to be torndown and replaced. HUD can only built a house over so many times.
    Make a long story short a nice trailer placed on Mr Hassbrock property would not cause me any grief.

  11. PcolaPhotog on January 10th, 2010 7:04 pm

    David Hule Green: You sound like a fine, up-and-coming home owners association Nazi.

  12. John on January 10th, 2010 3:34 pm

    Mobile home could be installed to look very nice. It does depend on how you finish them. Promise a really nice deck and patio cover including landscaping and the building dept should allow you to install one. Most building dept. and nearby property owners are afraid your just going to install the trailer and not finish it off.

  13. AL on January 10th, 2010 12:07 pm

    I live at 10 Mile Rd and was able to put a mobile home on my parent’s property because my mom’s doc wrote a note stating I was needed for her care. Not even a 2nd glance from the county once I produced the note.

  14. bobby on January 9th, 2010 10:19 pm

    well put Mr. Green!
    is there such a thing as private property any more?

  15. David Huie Green on January 9th, 2010 3:41 pm

    “This is one man who lives in a neighborhood. He has neighbors who may not want a trailor in their neighborhood. It doesn’t matter how long he has lived there or how long the others have. They paid for their property and have the right to say they don’t want the value dropped by a trailor. If the majority are ok with it than great give the man his trailor BUT if they are not than why should his property be more important that theirs. One man is not more important that all the rest”

    Which is to say, he does not really own his own property, his neighbors do.

    In fact, which is to say private property is an illusion but that we all have it in common. You can do anything you wish as long as it does not bother anybody.

    Just be sure to pay your taxes on what all your neighbors own with you.

  16. nicole on January 9th, 2010 1:58 pm

    To ME: have you really drove around molino and looked the tire store doesnt look like it would add much value to molino or home values i believe it has a trailer or two sitting behind it!!!!! i dont think you know his son very well how do you know he doesnt always do the same he doesnt even reside in molino right now,but he probally will very soon then we will see!

  17. joe w on January 9th, 2010 11:45 am

    i have about ten acres of land that is zoned ag,but i do not live in molino its in byrnville but i was able to put a mobile home on my land for my parents and it was considered a guest residence this is something he mite be check into

  18. sandy on January 9th, 2010 7:35 am

    i no benny all my life he is doding the best he can he has lost all everthing that mean a lot to him he & gay have thair hands full he has help the the people in and around molino with his garden he his thair to help when need to be help for
    others give him what he needs to help his family he is not hurting no one this land was left to him buy his mom & dad let him have what he wants quit giving him a headack

  19. ABC on January 9th, 2010 7:01 am

    I am an American By Choice, did not just get birthed into this once great country…… Everyone is so worried about their property values, well what property values ?. Do you ever in a moment believe in your life time you will recoup your investments? Not in this life time!………While ever our government strives to drive us to socialism/communism! There are people out there hungry and homeless with little children to care for,,,that need homes.and here our county is arguing with a gentleman that owns his home and land for what 60 yrs. and wants to move his legal heir onto the property? He did not buy into a subdivision with covenants. That is for the picky picky, not rural dwellers. Being a Molino resident for 26 yrs, isnt long compared to many oldtimers here, but I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else, we have what “Code Enforcenment??? Let them deal with those who dont maintain their property. Our local government doesn’t need to be involved in controlling the land our citizens worked so hard to obtain… If the trailer is strategically placed it will not even be seen except by immediate neighbors, and if they are “neighbors” then they should act like neighbors….. Times are changing folks, better start getting back to basics, you best learn how if this country keeps going to hell in a handbasket all you will have for support is your “family and neighbors”…..Kevin you have proposed an honorable solution……..

  20. JUDY C. MASEK on January 8th, 2010 11:50 pm

    it appears that by feb 4th, mr hassebrock and his son will have a satisfactory resolution to their problem, thanks to keven white…..btw, molino/walnut hill and the surrounding communities are so beautiful…but, i think, mostly…its all the people that ive met out here….i feel very fortunate to have lived here for the last 12 years…

  21. Anonymous on January 8th, 2010 11:32 pm

    This is one man who lives in a neighborhood. He has neighbors who may not want a trailor in their neighborhood. It doesn’t matter how long he has lived there or how long the others have. They paid for their property and have the right to say they don’t want the value dropped by a trailor. If the majority are ok with it than great give the man his trailor BUT if they are not than why should his property be more important that theirs. One man is not more important that all the rest. He no longer lives in a secluded area where you can do whatever you want. This is the price that is paid with growth.

  22. JUDY C. MASEK on January 8th, 2010 11:16 pm

    molino jim, i totally agree w/you regarding our nation heading down the slippery slop to socialism…..thanks to our esteemed leader of “hope and change” we are quickly moving into a “redistribution of wealth” mentality…..by taking the harvest of the “haves” and giving it to the “have-nots” we will soon find that the hard working segment of America has lost its unique inspiration to achieve and thereby, get us out of this economic plight…..in turn, the lazy segement of the “have-nots”, the ones who have grown up believing that “the world OWES me a live’n” will continue to suckle off of the government (our taxes) and NEVER find the motivation to even try to escape the stagnation of poverty….capitalism is the key to Americas revitalization!

  23. tax payer on January 8th, 2010 11:07 pm

    I was told that we could not put a trailer on our10 acreas on it because we had a house on iit already. We wanted to do this for our daughter. We did not want to deed it to her for several years to make sure the marriage was working out. We were told that we could deed it to her aacrea or half and she then could put it on he property because it was property.that had been passed down in her family. This ment a a sur1000 or 2000 to hire this done, Then had to be recorded deed and then apermit to do this and had to sumit a dveyrawing of the place the trailer would be located, We would also be the person to put culbert in. If this was not done correct and water washed the land away. We would be responsible to correct the problem, The county would not cone out and show us the correct wayThey would come out and if not correct way we would have to correct. I wonder what would happen if you had to move to your older parens in a trailer close to you to take care of them would you have to ded them land. The 10 acreas of land that I am talking about is surronded by 40 acreas of family land except one side.with road frontage,

  24. molino jim on January 8th, 2010 9:56 pm

    Look around NICOLE. It’s true we are a small town. But in addition to the Thumb there is another small store at 97/Molino Rd, a bait and tackle store, drug store, Fran’s and the new BBQ place, feed store/hardware, feed mill, school, a lot of churches, tire store, repair shop/lawn equipment shop, post office, and others. I have been told that there will be a small grocery opening in the area soon. I’m not a new comer to Molino—I’ve been here over 30 years. We have tried to be involved in things that will benefit the Molino area. I have supported Kevin with a check so I’m not “picking on him”. I’ve seen property fall into disrepair and it hurt the entire area. I drove down to look at some property the county was selling for the taxes and have seen hobo jungles that looked better, this can happen any where, hope not here.

  25. me on January 8th, 2010 8:21 pm

    I never said I lived in a 200k home I don’t and I have lived in a trailer. But those who have worked hard to have these homes don’t deserve to have their property value lowered because of a trailer. I do know Bennie and his family and yes he is a hard working man who does keep his place very well kept but his son doesn’t always do the same and yes I do know him too. As far as my “loveless home” is concerned, how would you know. You don’t know me and now YOUR judging things based on your feelings. And yes Molino is rural but its not the same as it use to be, things change.

  26. mom and tax payer on January 8th, 2010 7:47 pm

    Stand up to them. Our land has been in the family for 65 years we bought 10 acres. Pay 1100 to 1500 a year on taxes. The land that is around us is owned by family except road front and one side, The total amount of land is 42 acres. We ask to put a trailer on our land in our name for daughter and husband to live in. Did not want to put in her name until they had been married several years. In case something happen. You want believe that I was told that we had to deed it to her The catch is if it is family owned land you can put a trailer and it could be a forth of acre or acrea what ever we had to put in her name. We also had to get it suraded and after they had the picture of the land we would have to draw a photo of the exact place the trailer would be sitting. The drive way would be our problem The culbert would have to be bought and put in by us, THATS FINE, but if put in wrong we would have to redo and if it caused the land to wash we would be made to fix the land. NO they would not come out and show us how to do it. IT IS FUNNY THAT I KEEP MY DITCH UP WITH MY GAS AND MY MOWER, YOU CAN NOT SEE THE CULBURT BECAUSE THE COUNTY CUTS THE DITCHES BUT WANT USE A WEED EATER TO CUT AROUND THE OPENED TO THESE CULBERTS. THE DITCH IS COUNTY RIGHT OF WAY. SINCE THE ROAD HAS BEEN PAVED WICH IS GREAT. NO ONE HAS CLEANED THE DITCH EXCEPT CUT HAVE NOT DID A THING ABOUT THE OVER GROWED CULBERTS. Gay and Benny this is the way it is pay to put the land in his name pay to have surv pay for road to get on the land the road on county owned right away , Remember if it has been passed on to your son you can put a trailer or house on it even if it is just one forth of acrea, but youn have to put in their name and pay all this extra permits fees etc. No we could not afford to do all this She had to move to Milton and pay 700 month for a run down house, Do ever thing you can to make the people know just how this is, That 1100 to1500 taxes we pay taxes is after ag ex and home stead ex. I went to county office in Peansacola Flordia I was told we could put a trailer or home on our land but we had to deed it to her. You might deed to you wife and put trailer on and let them live in it, I did not want to put in daughter or husband name until we saw that it was going to work and take chance of losing land. I know a family that got this waved they have a trailer on it for son , do not give up. The land we bought ws owned by husbands husband. Gay probally taught half the people that live around this land that they want to use for their son. Have also been told if family dies and leaves you a acea of land you can build a house on it and sell in 2 or 3 years but you can not sell it to some one to build a home they have to have 5 acreas. you could because it is family owned land. Someone down town told me this.

  27. Valerie on January 8th, 2010 7:23 pm

    We ” rent ” from the government and they call that ownership!!

  28. i dunno on January 8th, 2010 6:30 pm

    To “ME” It is very evident that you don’t know who or for that matter….what….you’re talking about. And no one cares if you live in a 200k home or if you live in a 5k nice looking mobile home. Mind your own business, & loveless home & leave these hard working folks alone. Get it????!!!!!

  29. bmb on January 8th, 2010 6:26 pm

    They can figure out a way to keep a man from using his OWN land, but they can’t figure out how to keep Alabama students from coming to Florida schools, makes you wanna just leave this den of liars and cheats, has it always got to be who ya know, when will the average hard working fella who doesn’t depend on hand outs and does hold his family dear be given the respect and honor he deserves??? Sins of the fathers always visit the children, never know Bennie’s son may have children who one day hold the fate of some of these politicians in their hands. Something to think about anyway, you know the ole…”do unto others” thingy or for the non-believers the ole “what goes round comes round.” But hey as long as you can sleep at night…right????

  30. nicole on January 8th, 2010 6:10 pm

    In response to (me) this is molino a country town with nothing but a tom thumb if you dont want a trailer next to your 200,000 dollar home build it in town not in the rural areas since you seem to be to good to live near a trailer because there all around you and by the way if you have seen his home , yard, and all the land you would know he doesnt live trashy nor would he put a trashy trailer next to his home.Iknow this man very well ,he is a very hard worker and so is his son.

  31. me on January 8th, 2010 5:29 pm

    His hardship is no different than any of the ones we are all facing, nor is his sons. His trailer may be nice but if the zoning is changed the next might be trash. Will his son keep his place up or not? No one knows these things. The zoning laws aren’t there to punish him or take away from him but to protect the other PROPERTY OWNERS in the immediate area. If you paid 200k for a home would you want a run down trailer with a run down yard across from you? My family has lived out here their whole lives but this is not the same Molino from 20 yrs ago. Things change, progress is made whether it is good or bad.

  32. spay and neuter your pets on January 8th, 2010 5:22 pm

    John in Molino said it right. The govt. has too much say in what we do. I think it is crazy that the man can’t put a mh on his own property.. There are too many “can’ts” in Fla. Can’t do this and you can’t do that….not to mention if they do build something they get permitted to death. People that want strict rules should live in town in subdivisionswhere everything is dictated and regulated and let the people in the rural areas (and who own their own land) put up a mh if they need to. I have heard of the hardship clause but it will probably take a miracle to get it passed. Good luck.

  33. JohnMolino on January 8th, 2010 4:13 pm

    Hear that? That rumbling? Beneath our feet? It’s our Nations Forefathers rolling in their graves.
    Just another example of hundreds, if not thousands, of how our government has gotten way too large and restrictive into our personal freedoms.

    Doesn’t matter whether I like it or you don’t…It’s HIS property.

    There was a Chemistry professor in a large college that had some exchange students in the class. One day while the class was in the lab the Prof noticed one young man (exchange student) who kept rubbing his back and stretching as if his back hurt. The professor asked the young man what was the matter. The student told him he had a bullet lodged in his back. He had been s More..hot while fighting communists in his native country who were trying to overthrow his country’s government and install a new communist government. In the midst of his story he looked at the professor and asked a strange question.

    He asked, ‘ Do you know how to catch wild pigs?’ The professor thought it was a joke and asked for the punch line. The young man said this was no joke. ‘You catch wild pigs by finding a suitable place in the woods and putting corn on the ground. The pigs find it and begin to come everyday to eat the free corn. When they are used to coming every day, you put a fence down one side of the place where they are used to coming. When they get used to the fence, they begin to eat the corn again and you put up another side of the fence. They get used to that and start to eat again. You continue until you have all four sides of the fence up with a gate in the last side. The pigs, who are used to the free corn, start to come through the gate to eat, you slam the gate on them and catch the whole herd. Suddenly the wild pigs have lost their freedom. They run around and around inside the fence, but they are caught. Soon they go back to eating the free corn. They are so used to it that they have forgotten how To forage in the woods for themselves, so they accept their captivity.

    The young man then told the professor that is exactly what he sees happening to America. The government keeps pushing us toward Communism/Socialism and keeps spreading the free corn out in the form of programs such as supplemental income, tax credit for unearned income, tobacco subsidies, dairy subsidies, payments not to plant crops (CRP), welfare, medicine, drugs, etc. while we continually lose our freedoms- just a little at a time.

  34. Cheryl on January 8th, 2010 2:17 pm

    To Molino Jim & Harry Reid; the article says that Commissioner White is asking county staff to re-zone the property and waive the fees. Did you read the article or are you just just bent on complaining about Kevin White? Sounds like he did the right thing by Mr. Hassebrock.

  35. mp on January 8th, 2010 12:43 pm

    I too tried to put a double wide on property that has been in my family since 1933 only to find out it had been zoned commercial and was not allowed to do so.
    Yet a couple of years later someone put a mobile home in the same zone not
    two blocks from us.
    The government has taken over our lives & it is only going to get worse.

  36. Hmmm.... on January 8th, 2010 12:29 pm

    Let me begin by saying that this situation is absolutely ridiculous. Bennie should not have to go before some zoning board or anyone else for that matter in order to ask permission to put a mobile home on his property. How long has he owned all of this property? Probably long than I have been alive. There should be some kind of “grandfather” type law in effect for people in his situation. I have known this family for 20 years and I think that it says a great deal about what kind of man he is because he is willing to give what he has to help his son. At least they aren’t sitting there attempting to mooch off the government like many individuals that find themselves in tough situations or are just too dang lazy to get out and work.

    The thing that gets me is that that the government and our lovely President (yes, I said that with sarcasm) would rather help lazy, good for nothing people instead of helping those that are out working their butt off to make a living for themselves, their family, and even their extended family. You know the country is going to hell in a hand-basket when a hard-working individual cannot utilize the assets he has worked so hard to obtain. Bennie, you give me a call. I will drive the 4 hours from my home to speak on your behalf…just check with FatBoy…he knows how I am.

    I wish you the best!

  37. interested reader on January 8th, 2010 12:16 pm

    GOOD LUCK, BENNIE! Keep on trying, the property is yours and you should be able to help your family have a place to live. If it means filing a hardship case , DO IT!

  38. FATBOY on January 8th, 2010 12:12 pm

    I have spent many summers and weekends at Bennie’s house growing up with his son, they are good people who are only trying to help their son get a place to live. If people would spend more time worrying about their own business, and less time trying to run other peoples lives, things would be better. I bet the people who are against this issue are some of the same people who have called Bennie to repair water leaks in the middle of the night. They are good, honest, hard working people who are only trying to survive. Besides the land has been in their family long before any zoning laws were ever put into place, therefore there should be some type of ” grandfather law ” that would permit a mobile home as long as it meets current county and state codes, and is kept up.

  39. bobbie on January 8th, 2010 11:52 am

    I too know Bennie….and the son he is trying to help is probably the one that has spent many a time with his feet at my dinner table as well as my son’s at Bennie’s place…I too would do the same for my son…with today’s economy we as parents are having to step in and do what we can to try and help family members survive….KUDOS to you Bennie and I wish you and Gay the best!

  40. i dunno on January 8th, 2010 11:15 am

    I know Bennie personally…..& his family. Great folks. Bennie will not have a “junk” mobile home on his property. The man works hard keeping his place clean. It’s a shame he’s got to ask anyone if he can put a mobile home on Molino property. You highflutten folks don’t have heart if u speak out about your neighbor livin in a mobile home. If the property is kept-up who cares. My neighbor lives in a mobile home next to my $125000 home. They keep the yards clean. Their raising small children. They’re living life. Bennie & son….the very moaners on here will probaly be in church Sunday morning singing…..”Love lifted me”. Hang in there bubba……Good luck. If I can help, call me! Ben

  41. Molino Resident on January 8th, 2010 10:43 am

    Darlene I know exactly which two houses on Bet Raines Rd you are speaking of. Its ridiculous and I have called code enforcement on them and get no response. I wonder who they are related to or know because I can guarantee you if my yard looked like that and did some of the environmental damage they do I would be fined daily! William maybe you can do something like channel three on area eye soars.

  42. dnutjob on January 8th, 2010 10:42 am

    Darlene, it looked like that when you moved there did it not? I believe in property rights, if you are worried about the way it looks, that is what subdivisions are for with thier restrictions and bull, the reason we have the mess we have now is all the city people moving to the country. If you don’t like it – leave or better yet don’t come at all. I have 5 acres where I am at and if my nieghbor wants to junk his place up so be it, thats what comes with living next to the working folk, farmers, poor, and any one else who likes the open, or can’t afford the high and mighty rules of sameness.

  43. AL on January 8th, 2010 10:39 am

    the condition of the trailer isn’t the issue (or shouldn’t be). I lived in a “ragged out” trailer for 4 years because I had over $40k in credit card debt – it was the price I paid for my stupid decisions.
    The issue should just be a mattter of how the home / property is kept up and cleaned – a raggedy trailer on a well kept land is not an issue to me. A fancy brick home with overgrown yard, trash and debris would be.

  44. carri on January 8th, 2010 9:41 am

    Bennie has enough property right there that a trailer ragged out or not AIN’T gonna hurt….he owns half that whole 2 blocks…..go for it Bennie,

  45. Darlene on January 8th, 2010 9:25 am

    Talk about zoning they need to get all the mess on Bet Raines Road cleaned up those two homes at the end of that road are a mess. Someone needs some zoning on cleaness in that area.

  46. molino jim on January 8th, 2010 9:13 am

    Hey Kevin–why not let the son put a trailer next to you? Is it a new trailer or some kind of ragged out junk? Remember how nice the area at the east end of Molino Road down by the rail road looked? Also what kind of hard ship is the son facing that the rest of us aren’t facing also right now?

  47. NF on January 8th, 2010 8:55 am

    There are trailers and then there are “trailers”. I understand that the property in question had been split several time and is to small. Would it be the right thing to do to ask the people across the road who have nice homes if they want a trailer park across the street. I remember a fellow living in a slide in camper for several years in the area—didn’t add much to the area. As far as “let the poor man put the trailer where ever” would you want some of the junk that is in the area next to you? I recall there was a pig farm off another road in this area—and on a hot summer day you would almost throw up from the smell. Zoning is not always bad.

  48. S.L.B on January 8th, 2010 8:47 am

    Best of luck to you Mr. Hassebrock during this fight for your rights. Keep demanding and fighting for your cause and don’t give up because that’s what the politicians want you to do. If we all start making a stand for our rights, we’ll all be better off as a community in whole.

    I vote “Give the gentleman his rezoning waiver for a trailer” to put on his own family land!

  49. Wild Bill on January 8th, 2010 8:42 am

    Law is in place to keep property values respectable…… this I understand. But I also recognize that many of the modern mobile homes are a lot nicer and better built than the old brick and mortar homes that were built in years past. The law needs to be updated to reflect this fact. In my opinion, the county needs to focus on cleaning up its own messes (crime rate, murder rate, unemployment, low paying jobs, litter, poor road conditions, pollution, bad water, bad air, corrupt officials, etc….) and stop trying to control the ACTUAL working class.

  50. harry reid, jr on January 8th, 2010 8:32 am

    kevin white? wherefore art thou?

    who’s the commish for molino?

  51. Janice Parker on January 8th, 2010 8:20 am

    I don’t know if this situation falls under a hardship request or not, but it’s worth a try. Hardship means a case of needing his son’s help. I don’t know if they have changed the rule or not but I was informed by a county employee in the permit office that if you could prove a hardship, they have to give you a permit. This was several years ago. Go for it, man! Janice Parker

  52. whodat on January 8th, 2010 5:57 am

    The politicians beg, give me your support, give me your vote, then when they get elected, they say give me your money. All we get in return is the run around, and a lot of B.S.. We need to start requiring more from them, or replace them.

  53. me on January 8th, 2010 4:39 am

    its crazy people own property pay taxes on the property but yet government can tell you what can and cant be put on your own property… I might could see it if you wanted to put it downtown next to the court house or something stupid like that but ur talking molino

  54. mary n on January 8th, 2010 4:21 am

    give the poor man a break..i am in molimo & in a doublewide….i cant afford to build a house..he wants a roof over his head….& its his family’s land…whats wrong w/this??