Code Compliance department working to clean up Pasco’s Moon Lake community [Video]

PASCO COUNTY, Fla. — Real estate broker Susan Lamerton could have found a house in many different parts of Pasco County.

“But I prefer to live here in Moon Lake because of the peace. The quiet,” she said.

But mixed in with that peace and quiet are some tenants and property owners who Lamerton said are ruining it for everyone else.

“And there’s sometimes I get a little scared. But I’m not going to allow anyone to frighten me out of the community or out of my job,” said Lamerton.

She’s called code compliance several times on her next-door neighbor.

“I don’t want to have to turn people in, and then we play mean neighbors to each other. That’s not what it’s about. It’s about having a code enforcement following it.”

Compliance officer Damion Cooper grew up in Pasco County and has made it his mission to clean up Moon …