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Mobile-home owner a holdout in Cottonwood Heights
This is an archived article that was published on sltrib.com in 2007, and information in the article may be outdated. It is provided only for personal research purposes and may not be reprinted.

Posted: 4:37 PM- COTTONWOOD HEIGHTS - Most of the remaining mobile homes in the Meadows Mobile Home Park, all scheduled for utility shutoff today, sit abandoned with some picked over by looters.

Some of the newer homes are still being readied for transport to other area mobile-home parks.

For the folks still here, their options are few.

They were told by developer/landowner John Gust to be gone by Sunday - or risk being arrested for trespassing.

But the flower bed outside Jo Anne McVinnie's 1971 single-wide home is nicely preened, her robin-egg blue wicker porch furniture beckons people to stop by for a chat on the front porch.

McVinnie, armed with some self-taught legal knowledge, has dug in and refuses to leave. In March, she filed a complaint in 3rd District Court against Arbor Cottonwood Hollidng LLC, of which Gust is a part.

"I'm not just doing this for me," McVinnie said Monday. "It's for all of us," she said, referring to the 150 households that formerly called the Meadows home.

Last November, McVinnie began filing motions against Arbor. So far, there's been no response, she said.

"We'll stay here until they sue us," McVinnie said, adding that at this point, they have no where else to go.

cmckitrick@sltrib.com

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