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pictures of the residence. Chmrman Dick Carver said that maybe to
Dosch it looked like ajunkyard, but to Lewis, it is simply his treasures.
"Well, he has a lot of treasures that cream a definite fire hazard,"
Dosch said,
The question was also brought up as to whether Lewis was selling
from his home without a commercial junkyard license. Dosch said
that on occasion, he had sold from his home.
"l do not have and have never had a commercial junkyard," Lewis
said. "1 do have a pile of pallets in the back for my winter firewood,
hut I'm just a little boy and cannot stack it up perfectly neat."
Lewis said that the picture depicting sewage was nothing more
than water leaking from a cooler near his bus. The purpose of the bus,
he said, was to house welfare recipients and homeless people for short
periods of time until they could get back on their feet. He labeled all
of Dosch's claims as false and said that anyone was welcome to come
and judge for themselves whether a nuisance existed.
"l moved out to Amargosa to be peaceful and quiet," Lewis said.
"1 just wish she would leave me alone and stay out of my business."
Lewis told the PV Gazette that when he had first moved into the
neighborhood, Dosch had asked him to do some electrical work on their
mobile home. He said he completed the work and Dosch had asked if
be would hook her up to a septic tank. When he refused, Dosch allegedly
became angry and made it a point to "dig up all the dirt she could" on
him. Dosch denies this and said
that the trouble didn't begin until
he began moving more and more
items and people onto his lot.
"There is nothing wrong with
what he does until it infringes on
others," Dosch said. "When his
property and behavior became
dangerous to neighboring resi-
dents, ! responded."
Lewis received support at the
commissioner meeting from Jim
Kerr and Ralph McCracken of
the Amargosa Town Advisory
Board. A letter that McRae read
from the Amargosa Volunteer
Fire Department stating that they
had been to the address and that
there were no serious dangers.
Dosch had supporter's signa-
tures on documents obtained by
the PV Gazette, but no one spoke
on her behalf at the meeting. She
claimed that Lewis threatened
their lives and that they either
withdrew their complaints or did
not want to appear before the commissioners.
Despite the pictures, most of the commissioners felt that no real
nuisance existed other than possibly a difference of opinion on the
appearance of the property. Commissioner Bob Revert felt that
someone from the county should go out and view the property before
making a decision.
"If something does go wrong out there, this board could be the ones
to look bad," Revert said. "I'm just glad (Lewis) doesn't live next to me."
Carver said that complaints of this kind are becoming more
common. It is something he felt needed to be handled but he also
acknowledged that one reason why people move to Nye County was
to have a little more freedom from restrictions.
"1 think it has been made very clear that this is not a junkyard," he
said. "We do have the right here to keep our treasures in our yard."
The commissioners voted 4-0 that no nuisance existed. Revert
abstained and maintained that the situation should at least have been
looked into further.
For Dosch, the verdict came as a surprise. She felt that there was
no way the commission could justify calling Lewis's property safe.
'T m astounded," she said.' q'o me the pictures told the whole story."
Dosch said she has plans to move mobile units onto her property
and rent them out. She said she isn't done fighting, but that if the
entities she had contacted do not hand down violations based on the
commission's decision, she wouldn't be able to sell her property due
to her neighbor's property.
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