The proposed remedy, fake grass, was as unwelcome as the original offense. The Zoning Board of Adjustment required that the owner jackhammer the cement parking pad.
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Posted inGovernment & Politics, Land Use
$166G in taxpayer loans, yet council member's property still a wreck
Nine-month deadline passes, but councilman’s property shows little evidence of generous government support.
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Council gets upbeat report on blight, but members frustrated over lack of access
The weekslong budget hearings focused on blight eradication at the Thursday meeting. View the story “Snippets from the budget hearings. ” on Storify]
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Homeowner or homeless? St. Louis Street resident fights to hang on to what he has
By Karen Gadbois, The Lens staff writer | The stretch of St. Louis Street near Claiborne Avenue more closely resembles an industrial brown field than a residential neighborhood. And even in that context, the ramshackle house in the 1900 block has eccentricities of its own: the plastic flowers and ribbons that hang from the front […]