Clarence A. (Trip) Barnes 3rd will have to clean up his yard. Last week the town of West Tisbury learned it had won a long-running case against the colorful businessman over the alleged junk yard forming at Mr. Barnes’s State Road home.

“It’s no longer alleged,” said town administrator Jennifer Rand at Wednesday’s selectmen’s meeting.

The decision issued on July 5 by the Hon. Herman J. Smith, an associate justice of the Dukes County superior court, orders Mr. Barnes to clear his property permanently and “forthwith” of “all junk” including lawn furniture, scrap material, windows, lawn equipment, unregistered and junk vehicles and unoccupied camping vehicles.

“There is a saying that ‘one man’s junk is another man’s treasure,’” the Judge wrote. “While this truism may turn garage sales into treasure searches, it provides no comfort for the landowner who collects and stores on his property piles of items that most people and especially the local ordinances consider to be junk . . . the landowner must find other means to store his treasure.”

The Barnes property has been the subject of several zoning bylaw violations and legal disputes in recent years, culminating in the July 5 decision. The dispute began in 2006 when Mr. Barnes began moving effects from his Vineyard Haven business to his yard in West Tisbury.

“He was trying to move the same operation he had in Vineyard Haven to West Tisbury and West Tisbury said no,” town zoning inspector Ernest Mendenhall said on Wednesday.

“Selectmen felt it was important enough to spend some legal money . . . to defend our zoning bylaw,” he said.

Mr. Mendenhall asserted, and the superior court agreed, that Mr. Barnes had violated more than one aspect of the town zoning bylaw.

“He violated the bylaw by having more than one unregistered vehicle in town. He violated the bylaw because you can’t have a junkyard in town. We have a definition of what a junkyard is and the judge felt like it more than met that definition.”

Ms. Rand was unable to put a figure on the town’s legal bills. On Thursday Mr. Barnes said he was “aghast” at the decision. He said that the material in his yard was related to a recent affordable housing project he had completed.

“I don’t know what they want, it’s almost cleaned up,” he said. “Everybody keeps telling me how nice the place looks and no one gives me any credit for building three affordable units at no cost to the town.”

Mr. Barnes said that he plans “to do battle” on the order to remove the unregistered vehicles. “I have 50 of them to store and I rent them to people all over town,” he said.

Otherwise Mr. Barnes plans to comply with the order by clearing what remains on his yard by this weekend, but he added: “They said I couldn’t have a lawn mower on my yard; have you ever heard of that anywhere else?”