Several Morrisdale residents attended a township meeting last week, to complain once again about neighbors living in campers.
We went to the property and have more on the resident’s response.
A local woman who lives in a camper with chickens nearby says her neighbors have been making her life a nightmare.
“I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m doing what the borough has told me to do and yet every time I turn around, I’m getting harassed in a new way,” says resident Amber Bell.
Bell says she moved from Philipsburg to her parents’ property last October, and one of the campers she has there is a game room for her boyfriend.
She likes the idea of micro or mini houses and wants to put in solar panels.
“There’s problems with smell of sewage. Then they brought in some chickens and they have a generator running all day long,” says Morris Township supervisor John Saggese.
“My rooster crows, so he makes noise, but no there is no smell. I get regularly pumped out by Sweet Pea Potties,” says Bell.
Saggese says the township office did see some receipts for that.
“There’s five months of tickets but where’s, they were there for a year! And, where’s the gray water going?” says Saggese.
We saw several chickens wired off into pens. Residents also complained about barking dogs at last week’s meeting, according to draft minutes.
Bell got a postal address on St. Agnes Drive, and lives near some newer homes at Morris Meadows on Meadow Lane.
“We have a development with all new homes. You don’t want to see that in your backyard,” says Saggese.
One neighbor who asked not to be identified sides with Bell.
“It is nothing but harassment, cars going up and down,”says the neighbor. “My grandmother had roosters and I think it’s one of the most beautiful sounds when you wake up.”
Saggese says the township does have a nuisance ordinance and they are reviewing their options as angry neighbors keep complaining at meetings.
Bell says a county sewage officer stopped by, but she didn’t get a ticket.
“These people, I don’t understand how they can even live this way,” says Saggese.
“I don’t know what else to do, but I’m not going anywhere, so they might as well get it through their heads,” says Bell.
Bell says everything’s going fine with her new home, and she doesn’t plan to make any changes.
