FRISCO — A transitional home for homeless women has come under much scrutiny in Frisco, but now a settlement has been reached between it and a Homeowner’s Association.

City House, which places children and adults in transitional housing, has helped hundreds in Plano over the past 26 years. City House opened a home in the Plantation Resort No. 2 subdivision in Frisco, but became embroiled in a tug-of-war with the HOA.

News 8 learned Wednesday that the two have have settled in a case that questioned what defined a single family.

Details of the agreement are sealed.

“Our mission is to help youth and we’re not going to waste time and energy on litigation and fighting people that frankly don’t want us around,” said Rob Scichili with City House.

Rob Scichili with City House says it has decided to move from the neighborhood. He says the decision to move is separate from the settlement.  Read more:

York County officials digging into the issue of an unfinished subdivision in Yorktown have yet to answer citizens’ questions about when their streets and lights will be fixed — because they don’t know the answers themselves.

In September, residents of Riverwalk Townes, a subdivision off Old Williamsburg Road, asked the county for help and for answers.

They claimed the Riverwalk Townes developer Gary Sheppard of Sheppard Hale & Associates stopped working on the development before it was complete, leaving them with streetlights that do not work, unclear parking, unsafe roads and incomplete drainage systems.

Three months later, the president and the vice president of the Riverwalk Townes Homeowners Association addressed the York County Board of Supervisors again at its Dec. 16 meeting, asking when and how the county was going to take action.

“We’re scared to touch things,” said Jeffrey Phillips, explaining the homeowners were willing to fix the problems but did not know if they were responsible. “We don’t want to mess anything up that might be happening behind the scenes.”  Read more:

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For Mariano Borges, getting to a doctor’s appointment or going out for some fresh air becomes harder each day.

The 95-year-old Cuban gets around on a wheelchair. His 70-year-old daughter Maria Perez and his 50-year-old granddaughter Cary can barely lift his wheelchair to carry it up and down the stairs to the third-floor unit where they live in Northwest Miami-Dade.

It’s been almost six years since the elevators of the building where Borges lives and those of three other buildings in the Mirassou condominium complex do not work properly.

According to public records, Miami-Dade County has cited Mirassou with fines exceeding $5 million.

Michael Chavez, manager of Miami-Dade’s Office of Elevator Safety, said that when the elevators of the three and four-story buildings at the Mirassou began malfunctioning in 2008, the county sent out infraction notifications.

The violation penalties amounted to $5,065,120.  Read more: