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Middletown29
MUSA Citizen Joined: Mar 30 2011 Status: Offline Points: 474 |
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Lewitt/Finkelman should covern herself with fixing their property
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Typical selective enforcement and cronyism of the type that is fractionizing our community and festering municipal distrust.
Spider The selective enforcement of the law has become a joke in this community and that is why all the buildings downtown are in their current state of disrepair and City Hall's actions are 25 years tooo late. Every time I drive past the Ducan Oil property at the tracks I wonder what on earth was City Hall thinking when they made this mess? When is City Hall going to clean up this mess? No vision...no plan...no clue |
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Libertarian
MUSA Immigrant Joined: May 09 2013 Status: Offline Points: 37 |
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Vivian,
Is it really true that Mr. Akins staff recently cited your residential property for a "debatable" code violation? And, did he finally have demolished the long dilapidated homes adjacent to you on Waite Street plus Grand Avenue? Thanks for your previous efforts to try to have Mr. Akins mow two to three foot tall weeds/grass near you at properties on Waite Street, Grand Avenue, etc. Knowing that Mr. Akins reads posts on this blog, I guess that he wanted to send you a message? Keep up the good work ! |
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spiderjohn
Prominent MUSA Citizen Joined: Jul 01 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 2749 |
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Outside of C St, every building on the two-block run of S Main St should come down, including the Sorg Mansion and Opera House. They are all eyesores that could nowhere near pass code, and have not been remotely maintained by their owners. Typical selective enforcement and cronyism of the type that is fractionizing our community and festering municipal distrust.
If they are so valuable, why haven't they been maintained and used for anything meaningful? By allowing them to fall into such distressed condition for so long, their owners are pretty much saying that they honestly don't care about them, and in most cases are expecting someone else to maintain and/or restore them. Well--there is no one out there to do that any more. There are far more important issues out there. jmo jmo
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Voleye
MUSA Immigrant Joined: May 09 2009 Status: Offline Points: 37 |
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This building is past needing torn down. If it isn't torn down soon it will fall. Stand in front of the pawn shop and look up. You can see parts of the building around the gutters have already fallen, Up high on the back of the building there is missing bricks. The building needs torn down, it has been an eyesore and empty for several years.
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Where is City Hall going to get the funds to demo the Rose Furniture building?
I thought Ms Judy was going to get a 2 million dollar bond and this building was going to be removed using those funds.
I do not believe that Mr. Adkins can use the 2.1 million dollar Moving Ohio Forward Fund to demo this building. |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: 5:00 p.m. Friday, May 24, 2013
Supporters ask downtown building be spared from demolitionStaff Writer
MIDDLETOWN — A group of downtown supporters do not want the city to demolish the former Rose Furniture building.
Neither does the city’s own Historic Commission, though the city’s community revitalization department has filed an appeal and it will be re-heard at the May 30 commission meeting. The commission’s nine-member board voted to deny the application at the May 16 meeting. A small contingent of property owners and supporters of the downtown attended City Council’s Tuesday meeting asking the city-owned building at 36 S. Main St. not be razed. “A complete demolition would create a dead space, a black hole, a front tooth missing in the smile of that block,” said Lewitt, who represents the ownership of the adjacent U.S. Hotel at 34 S. Main St. “It will be another lot for the city to mow, maintain and to sit on for who knows how long. Instead, why not save the facade?” Doug Adkins, Middletown’s Community Revitalization director, filed the appeal. He could not be reached for comment, but according to an three-page appeal, with 14 pages of support from two experts, indicates repairing the building, or even giving it away, is not justifiable. “If the building was donated by the city to a new owner, I respectfully submit that there is no possible use nor could the building be adapted for any other potential use that could justify a reasonable rate of return … ,” Adkins wrote. The building, appraised for $40,360 (which does not include the $34,570 value of the land), would cost $47,600 to repair the building according to an August 2011 estimate, but did not include roof or structural repairs. Adkins wrote that the city received an estimate that would cost the city $400,000 to make the necessary repairs and remove any hazardous materials from the building built in the early 1900s. According to the letter sent to the city’s building department from city’s planning director, Marty Kohler, who also serves as the historic preservation administrator, the commission denied the application for demolition for five reasons, some of which were similar to Lewitt’s points:
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