(LaPorte, IN) - A La Porte man is furthering his crusade to clean up the city.

Brian Kajer says the old Speedway station on Lincolnway on the east side of downtown

is an example of the eyesores on a main drag casting a negative image of the city especially for

newcomers.

Kajer told the city council last night unsitely properties might cause people to go to other places like Valparaiso.

Mayor Tom Dermody says the problem is being aggressively attacked by Jeff Batchelor,

his new code enforcement director since taking office seven weeks ago.

But, he said things don’t happen at the snap of the fingers. and they will continue to tackle the problem. 

Presently, code enforcement is addressing more than 600 code violations, a number

the mayor believes is a record here for just a short period of time.