Our neighbor is poisoning us and giving us cancer literally. Please help. Please upvote this.

Hello everyone. I apologize if you consider the title an exaggeration but I really need this post to gain traction. I’ve wanted to post about this and seek help for a long time but I was worried that nobody here could help us.

We first moved into our current home in 2015 and understood that there was an automotive shop next door. It was loud occasionally but besides that we didn’t have any problems. Around 2017 they began painting cars and a few times a week for a few hours would smell like spray paint both outside and inside our house occasionally. We moved temporarily but no longer have the means to do this at the moment.

We’ve tried speaking to owner. We called the city on him two years ago and they told us that everything met regulations when they sent out someone to do an inspection and refuse to so anything further. Several of our neighbors have also tried to call the city. There’s children next door and I tried to convey that tho who i spoke to over the phone and i just received apathy in return.

I’ve gotten bronchitis several times living here and my mother was diagnosed with a tumor a little over a year ago. I can’t say for sure whether these are related but I suspect they might be. My grandfather died of parkinsons from working with certain chemicals and everyday i am just filled with more and more paranoia and worry.

Nearly everyday we are forced to leave the house for several hours or be in this environment. I am very concerned for the health of my family and it makes so angry me that the city allows this. I know it not the correct course of action but I even thought of threatening the owner to get it to stop. It makes me angry to no end. I don’t want me or my mother or our neighbors even to get some neurodegenerative disease or cancer due to this. I’ve done my own personal research on these chemicals and what harm they can do and it’s not right at all.

We live in Magnolia Park and theres no HOA that we can contact or anything nearby. I am convinced that if our neighborhood consisted of a different racial demographic that they would not allow this to occur. We know the owner to some extent and he is more than well off and owns multiple shops as well as a ranch. He is not strapped for cash and doesn’t need to continue doing this but insists on it knowing it is harming us and others including children.

I really didn’t want to post this and was hoping to resolve the issue without going public but at this point it’s ridiculous that the owner refuses to acknowledge that he is harming the community. For reference it is Flores auto shop on 74th street and Avenue I.

Is there anything that we can do legally? Is there any way to put an end to this? Can we form a petition and get the city to so do something?

Please upvote this if you see it even if you don’t have any suggestions as all of us including our neighbors are quite desperate to end this. We don’t want to shut down the place we just don’t want our loved ones to get sick. Thank you.