A recent WISN 12 News story about a raccoon-infested north side house touched a nerve with Milwaukee Alderwoman JoCasta Zamarripa."Here in my district on the near south side, we have the same, sounds like a very similar issue. In fact, these neighbors call this house 'the raccoon house,'" Zamarripa said Wednesday.The 130-year-old house at South 24th and Lapham streets in the Muskego Way neighborhood has seen better days."The neighbors on either side of him don't allow the children to play in the yard because they'll be harassed by these raccoons, and I believe it's a public health and a public safety issue," Zamarripa said.According to city records, inspectors have responded to 17 complaints there in just since March, ranging from the dilapidated state of the house and garage to the overgrown shrubs to the raccoons."No, I don't want to be around raccoons. This block here is pretty much a great block, and this house is like a black eye," said a neighbor who only wanted to be identified as Terrell.He said he's tired of the unwelcome visitors."I know for a fact they're based in this house. There's a hole in the garage where if I was on my top porch, I could see the raccoons in there. You can hear them. This is their house, they stay here, this is where they live," Terrell said. Zamarripa said the citations didn’t appear to motivate the owner."What the property owner did was nothing. He allowed those orders to turn into citations, he simply paid those along with his property taxes, and he suffered no repercussions," Zamarripa said.She is introducing legislation next week, closing what she views as a loophole in the nuisance property ordinance."This will give us an extra tool to be able to go after somebody like that who is simply paying the fines over and over," Zamarripa said. WISN 12 News reached the property owner who said he was having financial issues for a period and got behind on the repairs. However, he said he recently paid more than $50,000 for repairs to the roof of the house and garage. He said the house has been in his family for nearly 70 years, and even though he can't live there presently, he doesn’t want to lose it or rent it out. Zamarripa said her legislation will be introduced Dec. 12.