Description
Lately I have had increasing concerns about 216-222 Dwight St. and the activities of the tenants there. The backyards looks like a parking lot for unregistered vehicles, derelict RVs and discarded mattresses. The side yard between 222 and 216 is now also being used for parking (or makeshift repairs?) possibly by tenants of 216. Neither the sideyard nor the driveway of 222 is paved and increasing amounts of mud are being tracked over the sidewalks.
216 also has what appears to be a derelict trailer or RV parked in front of the garage in the back yard.
222 is owned by Mamoun's restaurant and houses some of the restaurant's workers. I'm not saying they are undocumented.
216 is owned by Apple Management and is apparently occupied by transient Yale undergraduates.
Both landlords are poor stewards of their property and seem not to have any regard for this neighborhood.
I don't know if any of this is illegal, but it certainly is unsightly and has dragged down property values on what is an otherwise lovely street of 19th century homes, most of which are owner occupied.
8 Comments
Anonymous (Guest)
216 DWIGHT ST.
Owner Name: STEINBACH, DAVID
[From: AGENDA FOR MEETING 1418
NEW HAVEN CITY PLAN COMMISSION
WEDNESDAY, July 16, 2008
"776-780 GRAND AVENUE, Site Plan Review for 19 new residential units in existing building in a
BA Zone (Owner: Grandiose LLC/Applicant: Michael and David Steinbach)."]
"Grandiose LLC" - hahaha...
christopher schaefer (Guest)
Sec. 47a-32. (Formerly Sec. 52-540). Nuisance defined. In any action of summary process based upon nuisance, that term shall be taken to include, but shall not be limited to, any conduct which interferes substantially with the comfort or safety of other tenants or occupants of the same or adjacent buildings or structures. [Note: this last sentence provides the legal basis for adjacent residents to file a lawsuit against landlords who fail to take action against “nuisance tenants”.]
np (Guest)
ZONING ORDINANCE
City of
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
Article IV
Section 29.
Parking.
(a) In any residence district, parking spaces shall be provided in the amount and location specified by the regulations of that district. Where parking requirements are expressed as a ratio to beds, employees, floor area, etc., any fraction of the stated amount of beds, employees, floor area, etc., shall require one parking space , but after the first such parking space , only a fraction of 1/2 or greater shall require an additional parking space .
(b) All parking spaces shall have an area of at least 180 square feet exclusive of adequate driveways and aisles, have direct access to a street or alley, be suitably surfaced and drained, and be provided with bumper or wheel guards where needed.
(c) No parking space shall be located within any required front yard , except that: parking spaces (whether enclosed or not) may be permitted to be located within a required front yard by special exception under subsection 63(d) of this ordinance upon a finding, among other things, that such parking spaces are necessary to the use with which they are connected, that they cannot be practically located elsewhere on the lot , that their location within a required front yard will not depreciate property values or cause vehicular or pedestrian traffic hazards or substantially decrease the open aspect of the street, and that such parking spaces are properly screened and otherwise arranged in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance.
A parking space may be located within a required side yard or rear yard, provided that no such parking space shall extend within two feet of any side of any side lot line or rear lot line; but a parking space within an accessory building shall follow the requirements of section 25 as to location within required side and rear yards.
(d) In the case of any use in a residence district for which three or more parking spaces are required, all parking spaces not within a building shall be provided with a suitable fence, wall or evergreen planting at least five feet in height, designed to screen noise, odors, visibility and headlight glare, and located between such parking spaces and any other lot in a residence district that abuts directly or across a street or alley.
(f) No sales or servicing or dead storage of automobiles or automotive equipment shall be carried on in any parking space .
Anonymous (Guest)
203-946-7090
Stängt Anonymous (Guest)
The description of this issue raises a number of red flags. I quote:
"I'm not saying they're undocumented"
"Transient Yale undergraduates"
Offensive statements aside, the mess has been cleaned up. The trailer is gone, the furniture is gone, the mud has washed off the sidewalk, the crisis is over. Dwight St is still standing.
tina (Guest)
tina (Guest)
Anonymous (Guest)
owner -
SULEIMAN CHATER
152R CREAMERY RD, DURHAM, CT, 06422
Parking on the yard - one of the hallmarks of white trash/ghettoness.
Slumlords in New Haven, don't care because they don't live here, they just suck the rent money out of town. College students are notoriously bad neighbors (usually loud and dirty) - no matter which school they go to. When they graduate and move to Rye Brook and Greenwich though it's a different story...