To Be Demolished: The Formal Track to demolition

[CS Foltz]

+1

[wsansewjs]

In order to save Springfield, one house at a time... one giant leap of faith.

GOD SAVE THE SPRINGFIELD (like homage to Queen of England thingy, just bare with me )

-Josh

[Timkin]

God... also please spare School 4 for me too ... pleeeeeeeeease!!!

[Kiva]

I have been working on trying to reach a "decider" on that house for some time.  It IS an icon of Springfield and it's important that we save it. 

If anyone knows Mrs. Massey personally and can reach her and persuade her to move on this I have faith we can work out a short sale.  We do this all the time. 

I'm open to any ideas and will be happy to help any way I can.  We're not looking for a commission on this sale - I just want to save this iconic home.

Thank you for your work in trying to save this home.

[iloveionia]

Thanks Chicken.  We love you.

Also, Code Enforcement has taken the steps to properly board and secure the home to keep vagrants and looters out.  +1 MCCD

[iloveionia]

Also, MCCD did not come upon this home by themselves.  A care request for "deterioration" and "trash debris" was placed on at least 2 recent occasions (April 6th) hence MCCD checking out the property. 

3 years ago also, a care request was also called in on the home while the owner lived there.

The CARE system does not protect our homes.  It is one of the primary reason SOS was created;  to help folks.

[ChriswUfGator]

This thread will go down in history as SPAR's legacy.

Those douches were behind most of the complaints filed on these properties, and many others. Usually bogus.

[AmyLynne]

This thread will go down in history as SPAR's legacy.

Those douches were behind most of the complaints filed on these properties, and many others. Usually bogus.

The difference between RAP and SPAR is night and day!!

To an outsider it almost seems like SPAR wants to be complete oposite of RAP!!!


RAP might be a pain in the ass a lot of the time...but I am glad to have them after hearing stories of SPAR!!!

[sheclown]

Through Urban Core CPAC, received a list of "Formal Track" homes -- CM Lumb had requested this info from Code.

MCCD cases of the unsafe structures with commission approval for demolition.



2009-48418 1925 N. Liberty S

1998-479 253 E. 2nd St.

2002-4475 1112 Ionia St.

2004-5530 2011 N. Market

2003-12601 1430 N. Liberty

2003-243 1145 N. Market

2009-106647 115 E. 3rd St.

2008-185935 321 E. 5th St.

2008-109635 1334 N. Liberty St.

2010-17878 1323 Ionia St.

1998-5557 1524 N. Market St.

1998-4990 1647 N. Pearl St.

1998-4546 423 Walnut Ct.

2005-409 342 W 10th St.

Unless we can figure out a way to stop the destruction of Formal Track homes, these are lost.

342 W. 10th is already down.  423 Walnut Court is mothballed. 

[iloveionia]

Code Enforcement, in particular Kimberly Scott, Chief of MCCD, has willfully and intentionally violated the Sunshine Laws. In the last 2+ years, even prior to PSOS I have asked over and over again for a list of homes that were in eminent danger of demolition, my terminology changed later when PSOS was formed and the practice of the "formal track" which of course according to MCCD doesn't exist, yet I can read about it over and over in HPC meeting minutes, and a list of homes approved for the formal track would be requested, and nothing. "We don't maintain a list, we don't have one."  MCCD and Kim Scott and General Counsel can sugar coat it anyway the want, the community was lied to.  Because alas, all of a sudden there is a list?  Are your fricken' kidding me? 

This is absurd. Absoutely absurd.

This crooked department needs to be leveled.

[Timkin]

Code Enforcement, in particular Kimberly Scott, Chief of MCCD, has willfully and intentionally violated the Sunshine Laws. In the last 2+ years, even prior to PSOS I have asked over and over again for a list of homes that were in eminent danger of demolition, my terminology changed later when PSOS was formed and the practice of the "formal track" which of course according to MCCD doesn't exist, yet I can read about it over and over in HPC meeting minutes, and a list of homes approved for the formal track would be requested, and nothing. "We don't maintain a list, we don't have one."  MCCD and Kim Scott and General Counsel can sugar coat it anyway the want, the community was lied to.  Because alas, all of a sudden there is a list?  Are your fricken' kidding me? 

This is absurd. Absoutely absurd.

This crooked department needs to be leveled.

+1  The sooner the better, too .

[mtraininjax]

This is absurd. Absoutely absurd.

+++++++1!!!!!!!!!!

[iloveionia]

Code Enforcement, in particular Kimberly Scott, Chief of MCCD, has willfully and intentionally violated the Sunshine Laws. In the last 2+ years, even prior to PSOS I have asked over and over again for a list of homes that were in eminent danger of demolition, my terminology changed later when PSOS was formed and the practice of the "formal track" which of course according to MCCD doesn't exist, yet I can read about it over and over in HPC meeting minutes, and a list of homes approved for the formal track would be requested, and nothing. "We don't maintain a list, we don't have one."  MCCD and Kim Scott and General Counsel can sugar coat it anyway the want, the community was lied to.  Because alas, all of a sudden there is a list?  Are your fricken' kidding me? 

This is absurd. Absoutely absurd.

This crooked department needs to be leveled.

As to keep things in context.

[ChriswUfGator]

Actually this list is a little light. If you compare it to the one I got from MCCD, there are several additional properties slated for demolition which aren't on this list they disclosed to councilman Lumb.

[Debbie Thompson]

So we are then back to "too bad, so sad, we honestly don't know how many to tell you?"  Until, of course, they want to pull one out of a hat somewhere and issue a demo COA without notice.  THEN, like magic, they can manage to find that address!!