After 46 visits and eight years of citations and requests, the Fairbanks North Star Borough is close to successfully cleaning up a “junkyard” property off Badger Road.

Efforts started last week when a local contractor began clearing out more than 100 tons of trash, waste and refuse, not including derelict vehicles on the 2-acre residential lot.

Borough Mayor Grier Hopkins said Wednesday that the borough has been engaged in protracted efforts since September 2017 trying to have the owners clean up the property.

“We started with citations and wanted to get to voluntary compliance,” Hopkins said. “Eventually, we were not able to meet that goal.”

The borough filed an injunctive request in Alaska Superior Court in November 2024 to start efforts to clean up the property. Hopkins said that

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