STRUTHERS, Ohio - City leaders in Struthers are at odds over the way a vacant residential property on 6th Street is being used to store vehicles for a local lawncare business and construction company.

“I've seen them with my own eyes, that they've been parking on the grass,” City Councilman Ron Carcelli told 21 News Monday. “We have an ordinance, and I just want to see the ordinance followed. That's all. I'm not sitting here to pick on him.”

To park a vehicle on “any lawn, grass or landscaped area” in a residential property violates an ordinance passed by the city council in January.

In addition to Carcelli’s account, 21 News heard from a neighbor who supplied pictures of trucks and trailers parked on the lawn, and our crews saw vehicles that appeared to be parked fully or mostl

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