You have my sympathies. I'm vice president for my fraternity alumni housing corporation. We received a similar summons a few days ago to appear in court next week over failure to fix a retaining wall at our chapter house in Dinkytown. It was damaged earlier this year when a truck exiting the neighboring parking lot ran into it and knocked part of it down.
The sad thing is that we did get the retaining wall fixed. It was a few weeks after the deadline that Inspections had set because we had trouble finding a contractor to do the job, but the work was completed about six weeks ago. And we already paid a $100 "reinspection fee" for missing that deadline. As best I can guess, the inspector did not bother to check the retaining wall out before filing a complaint with the courts or the turnaround time from when he filed to when a date was actually set must be awfully slow. I'm all for aggressive enforcement of the housing ordinances, but this is a little ridiculous! What's next - going after homeowners that have tallish flowers in their boulevard gardens? Oops - they already do that, too. Mark Snyder Windom Park TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
