My most recent blog comment about 1303 New Orleans being an institutional group was sent by someone else to Code along with some questions. Zoning/Land Development was placed in the loop and this is their response.
"You are correct, if the owner is advertising it as a boarding house and charging rent for the rooms, then it's being used as a boarding house. That use does not comply with city code regarding a single family residence. I'm not sure why the case was complied to single family standards. I know that an interior inspection by Code Enforcement was needed in order to comply the case and I believe one was conducted. I will notify Code Enforcement to investigate this address being used as a boarding house.
LaChone Dock
Planning Research Analyst I
City of Tampa Land Development Coordination"
When I read the above my response was AAAARGH!!!!! (Cue in sound of Howard Dean). I was cursing the F word all over the place. (As you read this paragraph feel free to insert the F word in multiple places in each sentence. )
THE FACT THAT THIS WAS A BOARDING HOUSE was the reason this was referred to Code twice already. The first time that this was dropped was because ( if I remember right) Lachone told Code (Harold Scott) that 1303 had a variance that allowed them to be there. That was incorrect as they had a variance that allowed them to be an assisted living facility but not one that allowed them to be a rooming/boarding house. Never mind that I had been telling code (Bill Doherty) the correct info about the variance on numerous occassions in that first go around. The case got closed as complied when it had not.
Now, again they get cited for operating a boarding house. Again the City gets told on numerous occassions, this time by numerous people, that they are a boarding house. Everyone in the City (except Kristin) gets hung up on the 5 person rule, without looking at that rule closely, causing them to (maybe) close the case as complied.
Here is a new rule. The duck rule. If it quacks like a ducks, smells like a duck, taste like a duck, maybe it is a duck.
I think there needs to be some job switching. People in Land Development need to do some code enforcement for a while and vice versa. Maybe both groups would learn to think beyond their narrow little area of focus.
I have lost my patience. I just cannot believe it. Give me a f'ing break.
Just add lots of muttering and cursing. Lot's of it.
Just to reiterate to any City people who have not gotten it. This place is a boarding house and is not allowed there.
Let's be peaceful about it. Let's set up a protest outside 1303 E New Orleans til they move. I don't care what we do...sing Christmas Carols 24 hours a day til we annoy them and they move--I think that a Guantanomo tactic:)....or lets set up a picket line with signs and invite the media..How about reading Dumya quotes over a megaphone for 24 hours straight...we can offer free food and drinks to keep the number of protesters up...maybe this is a lame idea..whatever....let's just get rid of them....there are children in this neighborhood and these people are scum..deplorable...they need to go.
ReplyDeleteyou need a hug and a cup of mind your own business. just do what you can and save your sanity. say the serenity prayer and see where it may apply...
ReplyDeleteThere's almost a daily entry on this blog regarding 1303. So...so much for people minding their own business. Plus, sexual offenders living in the neighborhood is everyone's business.
ReplyDeleteyou all most likely think about the sexual offenders more than they think about you...maybe you are sexual offender preditors? or maybe you have a fetish for sexual offenders?
ReplyDeleteAnonymous said...
ReplyDeleteyou all most likely think about the sexual offenders more than they think about you...maybe you are sexual offender preditors? or maybe you have a fetish for sexual offenders?
10/12/2006 1:31 AM
OR MAYBE IT IS THE DILIGENCE OF YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT HAVE KEPT THE SEXUAL OFFENDERS FROM OFFENDING AGAIN! I THINK EVERYONE IS IN AGREEANCE THAT WE DON'T MIND HAVING "A" SEXUAL OFFENDER IN A HOUSE, JUST NOT 5 OR 15 IN ONE HOUSE. I THINK BY HAVING A CONCNETRATED NUMBER YOU ARE ASKING FOR TROUBLE. THERE ARE PLENTY OF INDIVIDUAL OFFENDERS THROUGHOUT THE NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT YOU NEVER HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THEM.
AS FOR PICKETING, I THINK YOU SHOULD PICKET THE MAYORS HOUSE, CITY HALL, CURTIS LANE OR SANTIAGO CORRADOS HOUSE. THESE ARE THE PLACES THAT HOUSE THE LEADERS THAT COULD HAVE MADE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY WOULD HAVE CARED.
11:34
ReplyDeleteYOU need a cup of STFU. A big one.
Umm. Thanks 8:05, I needed that. What did you put in it?
ReplyDeleteI would be more worried about 1 living in a house, because they would want a playmate. 5 or 15 have each other! And they are all in one place, not all spread out and hard for you to keep track off...
ReplyDeleteIts ILLEGAL.
ReplyDeleteShut them the he## down.
Anon 2:33...
ReplyDelete5 or 15 have each other? Duh, they don't WANT each other, they want little kids, they want defenseless elders, they want innocent young girls and boys. They're not interested in their "skank-dankety" house-mates.
5 to 15 in a house don't need playmates? They can all sit around and share pointers on how to "do it " better. Do you think that they are living together and helping each other become better citizens, all the while singing "kumbaya"? Highly doubtful.
Bet you'd be singing a different tune if your kid had to walk past that house to and from school everyday.
Remember the movie, I think it had Joe Pesci in it where he was a slum lord and the judge made him go live in one of his crappy properties. Maybe that is what we need. Ms. HeLLen Pridgen (and Curtis Lane) should be forced to live with them. Maybe they would not be so willing to break the law.
ReplyDeleteorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr .the place could accidently burn.
ReplyDeleteI knew it would get passed.
ReplyDeleteJust like everything else.
I do want to find some sort of paper trail but by that time, I am sure the fu@ktards in code will have shredded anything of value to us.
lol
ReplyDeletef**k tard.
asswhipe is good one too!