Mobile home park cleanup warranted

An order this week by an Albany Municipal Court judge to clean up dilapidated mobile homes in a Clark Avenue mobile home park is long overdue.

The area was improved greatly when another poorly maintained mobile park further east on Clark was taken out to make room for the Walmart SuperCenter. But in the time since, the area commonly known as Mimosa Trailer Park has spiraled down, with a number of structures on the property that are hazardous to the public. Trailers damaged by fire, neglect and storms have been eyesores for years on one of Albany most-used traffic arteries.

While the owners of the property have started clearing out some of the most dangerous and dilapidated of the mobile homes, there are more. In his ruling Wednesday, City Judge Ralph Scoccimaro gave the owners two weeks to clear out five more of the trailers and a month and a half to tear down or remove a sixth one.

This battle with blight in this mobile home park has gone on long enough. There has been ample time afforded those who own the facility to clean it up. In addition to the health hazard it