The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 344, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 5, 2002 Page: 8 of 14
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Journal is a guide to birds and American white pelican, brown snake, Eastern cottontailed rab-
mimals recently spotted at the pelican, great blue heron, great bit, raccoon.
center, The Journal is submitted egret, tricolored heron, little blue Experiences: Monarch butter-
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row. Northern cardinal, red- woodpecker, downy woodpeck, located on West Shreck Avenue. the foundation replace, win- prohibitive. Gldley said after the list was.
winged blackbird, common er. Northern flicker. ” ' off Bayway Drive. dews, doors and interior walls The one:room apartment read.
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By JEFF SCHELDT
The Baytown Sun
' ' BAYTOWN - To demol-
ish or not to demolish? That
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eral times Monday at the
city's Urban Standards
Review Board meeting at
Baytown City Hall.
< Several, residents attended
the meeting to hammer out
compromises with the board
about how they can get their
structures under scrutiny back
• in line with city building
codes.
City inspectors recom- 1
mended demolishing a shed (
on Baytown resident Richard '
Rayon's property in the first
block of West Nazro Street,
but after declaring that he
would fix the 70-year-old
building that he says has sen-
timental value, the board gave
Rayon 30 days to get repair
estimates then report back at
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Assistant Inspector Mark toue ue8a"
Shilly will be asked to inspect He will choose between "At first, it was hard," he
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then decide if bringing the Paying $75 for a demolition but there and do the work anf •
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homes for families and individuals for
Specializing in rentals, sales, lease, resi-
Demolitions under scrutiny by board
then pay contractors an esti- Agado wants to rebuild for.
mated $9,000 to fix the his children is. according to
plumbing and electrical sys- the inspector's report, unsafe
terns. - to enter as support posts have
- -l--------- The board approved a 90- rotted making the structure
the question debated sev- bulldjng permit for Ruii. unstable.
,lm“' n" ',v “• • ° who must report back month- While city staff had recom-
ly to show that he is working mended the apartment atop a •
swiftly to fix the building. carport be demolished, the •
"This board will go along Mboard gave Agado 30 days to
with you as long as you are acquire repair estimates and
making progress, " board make a decision on repairs. If „
president Bill Gidley said. no repairs are made, Agado- .
The board required Tobia may be asked to tear down thei Z
Ortiz to declare a small, apartment.
dilapidated building on his The last resident to address
property either a shed or a the board presented them '«
garage because each type of with pictures illustrating that
structure has specific build- repairs to his . mobile home
ing codes. are under way. Andres
He settled on a shed, but Carmona is required to give
now the future of the leaky, progress reports each month r
tin building is uncertain. The afterrecelving theconstruc-
board voted in a 2 to 1 deci- tion approval.
sion to allow Ortiz to request While Carmona said get-
a building permit from the ting initial approval to repair ■
ma men report uacit at P6™1' offlce< at wh,ch hls home was dlfflcalt- th? . .
next board meeting tlme wld recelve 3 I*®1 °f board has been fair since he
.....utant Inspector Mark code requirements for a shed, began work. ...
Shilly will be asked to inspect He w111 choose between At first, it was hard, he
the building, and Rayon will bringing the shed to code or said. "But the people that go
then decide If bringing the paying $75 for a demolition out there and do the work ani'-
shed up to code is worth the P®™1’then demolish it him- are willing to invest their timi •
money and time required. and money to fix their house -;-
It was a decision other resi- Realtor Shirly Whalens of ... the board will work with
dents at the meeting had to REMAX/Northshore, (them)."
make, and one that drew cau-. addressed the board concejn- In other business, the board
tionary statements from iong- ing a-house in the 100 block approved demolition orders.
time board member W.J. of Arbor owned by the Fannie for a leaky, open shed in the' :
Reineke. Mae Foundation. 1400 block of Ash and lean
"We've seen a lot of old A permit was Issued for Ing, rotting shed in the 700
houses that people put all this repairs on the house at the block of West Nazro.
money into and they can't fin- September meeting, giving The board awarded bids to
ish. That's sad," Reineke said, the buyer an opportunity to All Texas Demolishing to
David Ruiz, of Baytown, get the building to code. But demolish two structures in the
made the decision to repair the prospective buyers backed 1100 block of Stowe, and
hls house in the 1300 block of out, so on Monday, the board structures in the 1300 block
Yupon. He attended the meet- approved issuing a building of Willow, 1200 block of , -
, U I*™ ■ ing to ask the board to allow a permit. to. repair the home Carnegie. 1100 block of Pine,
ir^Ti garter snake, staying on the trail building permit as he will try once the property was sold. 100 block of East Lobit and
' wmpd thp safp thine to do. We to get hls building up to code Resident Felipe Agado 100 block of East Humble.
-------------- -tcnnn asked the board to allow him The board also heard a list
*' Center's Crystal Bay Butterfly Reineke said. "That's a lot of in the 1300 block of Cherry., ers had demolished structures
Garden. money.” even though the city inspector as requested by the city.
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