#code violations

[goodgrammaritan]

Cons:

We got a letter about code violations. We have until 10 days from the date of the letter to address them.

The letter was dated 7/20.

The letter was postmarked 7/25.

The letter arrived 7/27, which is a Saturday, and the city offices are closed

The deadline is 7/29, when they will perform a reinspection.

One of the items is getting a dead tree removed. Three weeks ago we scheduled someone to look at it. Their earliest available appointment was 7/23.

Due to the rot and proximity of power lines, their company is unable to do it, and we need a specialist.

We are going out of town soon, so scheduling a specialist will be difficult.

My in-laws announced they're spending the night tomorrow night. 26 hours' notice. We knew they were "maybe stopping by on their way through at the end of the month," but somehow that morphed into staying the night. Tomorrow night.

Pros:

I emailed the code enforcement officer detailing our difficulties and the disadvantage the late arrival of the letter put us at.

My father-in-law enjoys yardwork, and can probably help us trim the trees and address the lawn issues.

My mom listened to me spill all of my stress and was kind and encouraging.

[maryannmccarra-fitzpatrick]

Via Polly Byers on Peekskill People Unplugged:

#Peekskill

#CityOfPeekskill

#PeekskillNY

My husband and I moved to Peekskill in 2006. Since that time we have experienced and observed a marked decline in quality of life due to the non-enforcement of laws and local city codes, as had many of our now former neighbors. The neighbors we had in 2006 have nearly all left the city, due to quality of life concerns.

These issues include, but are certainly not limited to: gun-toting felons in driveways, men in windows exposing themselves whilst engaging in lewd acts, men urinating and defecating on lawns, the never-ending garbage strewn on lawns, muggings, and panhandling. We have personally experienced the robbing and ransacking of our home, the theft of our lawn furniture, and our son being mugged as well as targeted for beatings and abuse carried out — by both adults and children—in city parks and schools, without any fear of being held accountable for their violent and anti-social behaviors. This is unacceptable.

Unacceptable, too, are the homes illegally converted into rooming houses, in contravention of the city code. What is being done to correct these unsafe living situations? Where is Code Enforcement? Why is a blind eye turned to these violations of the law? Similarly, why is there no crackdown and arrests of those connected with volleyball games which feature illegal gambling, sale of liquor and food without a license that destroys the quality of life for their neighbors through scenes of public drunkenness, public urination, accompanied by stadium-style lighting and loud amplification that goes on well into the night. These, too, are quality of life problems which are being ignored.

The most recent insult to quality of life is the odor of cannabis which hangs over our downtown, which is pronounced on the 900 block of Main Street. I was accosted by a group of obviously impaired people one afternoon on South Street, as I made my way back home from the Peekskill Coffee House.

In the last weeks of August there were several incidents which marked, all too clearly, the decline in quality we — and our neighbors— are experiencing.

At 6:15 a.m. one morning I opened my door to find a man passed out, inebriated, on our porch, who had urinated over our porch furniture. The police were called and the man was left to stagger down the street. He needed to seat himself twice on our porch stairs as he could not walk.

Four days later, I saw another man passed out in front of a bodega on the 900 block of Main.

Later that same day, I witnessed a pile of bicycles blocking the entrance to a bodega while an elderly man with a walker tried to navigate around this impediment blocking the sidewalk.

Subsequently, there was the robbery at the smoke shop illegally selling cannabis. Such stores are shut down in Yonkers. Why not here?

A few days later, a bomb scare two houses down from ours, necessitating the removal of the family from the home and the immediate area cordoned off with police tape, so that searches could be executed and law enforcement agents could canvas the area with dogs.

Not even a week later, there was a shooting in our neighborhood, two blocks away from our home, while we were having a meeting on our porch and our son’s bus was delayed by the cordons of police tape around the block.

Last Friday, my husband, who stands at 6 feet, four inches, and I were walking home after having had dinner on Division Street, which is well-lighted and lively. As we crossed onto 900 Main, at about 8:30 p.m., there was a marked change. There were groups of two to three men, smelling of cannabis, or obviously intoxicated, lingering in front of the bodegas or under the scaffolding which blocks the lighting on the south side of the street. My husband started to “zig-zag” us across the block, to get away from these groups of men. One started to follow us at the intersection of Nelson and Main. He followed us as we progressed up to our home on Nelson and we did not feel safe.

My message to the Council tonight is that we, as residing tax-payers, do not feel safe and these quality of life issues need to be addressed. We do not feel the city is addressing these issues in any real or meaningful manner, and quality of life is declining rapidly.

Cannabis is still being sold, whether by dealers or in these so-called “smoke shops.” Code Enforcement may clear an illegally overcrowded house, but within weeks the houses are packed again, and the sound of carpentry and construction going on during the weekends or at night, when Code Enforcement is unavailable. Traffic rules are regularly flouted, and routine double-parking on Main Street and South Street makes driving very dangerous. It is all too common to see an inebriated or impaired person passed out in the street, and the streets themselves are littered with rubbish.

I have read the City Code and there are existing laws and regulations which are not being enforced or observed.

I recall our former Police Chief Eric Johansen remarking to me that, with the increase in population for a city such as ours would require a proportionate increase in the number of law enforcement officers, since more people, invariably, means more crime and anti-social behaviors.

The laws that are on the books should be enforced. While we, as tax-payers, respect the laws, the police, and our neighbors, we feel little has been done to remedy these situations.

[gothicvalentine]

I just bought a new lawnmower, but it's electric and my lawn is really high after all the rain we've been getting lately. Needless to say, it didn't work. I had to keep starting it every couple of minutes.

If our own still had the same code enforcement lady they had a few years ago, all I would have had to do was call her and she'd give me an extension as long as she knew I was working on getting it mowed.

This new lady, however, is not empathetic at all. Last year I had someone who was going to help (I'm disabled but there's only help in my community if you're over 65) and the lady who was going to help couldn't get to it until the following week. The current code enforcer said she had until Friday and not until our next meeting the following Tuesday.

I was out of town this week when I got the notice about my lawn and I called her Friday to get an extension.

I told her I just bought a new mower and asked to have the weekend to get it done. She said she already had me on her list to have it mowed by their contractor on Saturday, but she'd give me until 1 pm.

I thought my mower would be able to do it (though not well) so I agreed.

I was going to call her this morning (because it turned out they didn't mow it Saturday afternoon or Sunday), but I knew this but I knew Meredith wouldn't care.

Sure enough, even if I had called her, it would have been too late. The lawn service showed up right after 8 am.

So now I'm wondering how many hundreds that's going to cost, that I can't afford, and hope that my ability to pay isn't tied to my driver's license. Being poor sucks so hard. 😭

[realtortomgilliam123]

Discovering code violations while trying to sell your home can be extremely frustrating. Minor code violations may not be a big deal, but significant viola

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