Let's All Stay on the Job!
Hello! This has been a 5 year battle, BUT we finally won. We do need to stay on top of both properties so they will keep their yards and sidewalks CLEAN! The garage belonged to the yellow house which technically has a 210/212 Camp Street address. The yellow house on Camp was the house in court over the garage.
And the walls came tumbling down.
124 Grand View has been cited numerous times but they do not seem to get it. I have a meeting tomorrow with a woman named Daisy. Daisy works in the environmental department and is coming to my house so that I may take her to see 124 grand view and the mess they have and to show her additional areas of concern. If anyone has a particular area they would like noted, that I may not be aware of, just leave a comment on here and I will take Daisy there also. I am meeting with her at 2pm on Friday April 23@ 230pm.
Other than that we can ALL keep calling the mayors office of neighborhood services at 401-421-7768 or the environmental police at 401-467-7950. The more calls we, as a neighborhood, make the better off we will be and the FASTER things will move. Thank you to everyone who has had a hand in getting this mess cleaned up. Now lets ALL stay on the property owners and the city to ensure the properties STAY CLEAN!!
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A Big Round of . . .Thanks
Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who put an effort in to take down this hazard. Its been unsanitary, unsafe, and a real mis-representation of what this neighborhood is about and can be.
I am willing to keep up the push to get the remainder of these and neighboring properties cleaned up.
Not sure who the garage actually belonged to, the house on Grand View or the house on Camp Street. Does anyone know? Was the house on Grand View (124) the property owner that was taken to court by the city? Were there other citations that took place to enforce a clean up of this property?
I'd like to know so that we don't beat a dead horse, but if not, the push needs to continue. Its a real shame. These are good people living here, but it would appear that there is a lack of respect for the neighborhood, its beauty and their neighbors who live here with them. Its too bad the city has to get involved, but its for an entire neighborhoods well being.
Thank you again to everyone who pushed for this initial clean up! Keep up the great work!
Anonymous
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The City Listens
Finally, they tore down the decrepit garage on the corner of Camp & Grandview, the garage that stood so long in the process of rotting and falling down before our eyes, a property and a situation that became a symbol to some of us of the City of Providence's double standard toward Mt.Hope and other East Side neighborhoods.
You can view pictures of this and the adjoining property in the March, 2010, entry, A Real Fine Mess.
It is my understanding that the City took the property owners to court to get them to comply with the zoning ordinances. It's about time: the place was long a health hazard and an eyesore.
Couple this victory with the previous one, the City mandated clean-up of the property next door on Grandview, and it is clear that if a number of Mt.Hope residents unite and work toghether, if they apply enough pressure, in the correct manner, through the proper channels then we can get this kind of action from the City.
Mind you, it was not easy, it did not happen overnight, but it did happen.
Thanks and congratulation to all of you who called the City Hall, Code Enforcement, and various City officials to get this accomplished.
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