From the tissue strewn couch of InShaw:
I’m a bit ill this week so not much commentary on this, except to say this is an update on a Marc Fisher article I blogged about before. Mr. Fisher updates us, saying others have gotten involved with the elderly couple, such as HUD and some pro-bono lawyers, after reading his first article. So give “Human Dignity Also Needs to Be Preserved” a read.
Month: January 2008
Gotta love this weather
I know it won’t last, but at least the arugula perked up.
Yesterday I played in the yard pulling out weeds and getting my nails dirty. I also pondered my guerrilla gardening options, surveying the landscape and challenges of a particular lot. I think I will transplant a few of the weedy and aggressive things in my yard over to the place that I intend to, um, partially take over. I’m looking for things that can fend for themselves and survive the occasional city demanded mowing. I know of 2 or 3 plants that can do. Maybe as a lark, I might take a bunch of sunflower seeds and see what happens.
BAA Meeting
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| Blagden Alley Association |
| Monthly Meeting |
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| THURSDAY, January 24, 2008 |
| 7:30-9:00 pm |
| The Whitman Community Room |
| 910 M Street Street, NW |
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This is a pre-announcement of the next meeting.
The official announcement will come out the weekend preceding, as
usual.
Mayor Fenty is the featured guest.
He was here in July, and he’s back!
So, if you have any special concerns that the Mayor address, please
email
them as a reply to this email. I will collate them and forward them
to the Mayor’s Myrmadons.
In July they looked like
http://www.pro-messenger.com/Blagden/Monthly%20Pages/2007%20Monthly%20Pages/BAN_2007_07_P2.html
Not that you couldn’t ask anything else, but
for complex matters, it’s only fair to give the Mayor a chance
at a researched answer. We surely won’t get all topics in,
but it ought be toward 80-90%.
I need the concerns and questions by this weekend (Saturday evening).
Hal Davitt
403 R St NW
Well another vacant house for your viewing. This one is at 403 R Street NW, owned by Dorothy Farr of 57th Ave S, Seattle, WA, who got the property in 2003 and surprise there is no available data about a ‘sold for’ amount. But there is something interesting. This property has a Class 3 exception. Class 3 is the vacant property rate where one is charged $5 per $100 in house value. However, one can get an exemption by doing work on the property or having it up for sale. Because the government is way too smart to just take your word for it, you gotta go through the motions, and on the door of 403 R St there are building permits.
Yet, these date back to 2004, and from my observations, not much has happened since 2004, except the yard gets mowed. The windows are broken and the downstairs window is cinder blocked. The building is secure, but I don’t know if that requires a permit. And according to my permits the authorized work must start within one year of the date the permit was issued, or the permit expires. And if the permit is expired then someone shouldn’t be getting a Class 3 exception for construction. Maybe it’s for sale.