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I wish Mr. Baacke would checkout the bottom of Forest St.,Blodgett St.,Stevens St.,across from St. Margarets's School,around the corner,on Wedge St.,Wilder St.,across from the Morey School, to see for himself how ugly,and unliveable Lowell is becoming.Houses on these streets have been converted to numerous apts.,lawns are ripped up, asphalted, and cars everywhere.If you're a neighbor to one of these monstrosities,you're out of luck, as your new view is one of cars, with fumes, no grass, or flowers, just cars, and no privacy, just cars, cars, and more cars. Watch your property values plummet also. Mr Baacke can expound, on making Lowell better, but it will never be more livable,or greener, if the car remains King, in Lowell, and if his dept.,refuses to enforce the city's parking,driveway, and stormwater ordinances.
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Adam Baacke (Guest)
I share your concerns and agree that excessive paving has a detrimental impact on our neighborhoods and the City as a whole, in addition to creating additional stormwater runoff issues that all utility ratepayers have to pay for. Further, at least one of the cases you identify in this complaint, 479 Stevens Street, is in violation of zoning and was installing a driveway without a permit. As a resident of this neighborhood, I personally observed this work last Sunday morning and arranged to have the proper inspectors serve a stop work order on this contractor last Monday morning. I can assure you that the City Engineers, who enforce the driveway and paving permit ordinance are aware of the issue and working to address it. Unfortunately, work that was done prior to enactment of the ordinance a few years ago cannot be retroactively cited and the more unscrupulus paving companies can be difficult to always catch, but the City is working on this issue.
-Adam Baacke
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Jay (Guest)
The city's nimble legal dept. should be able to quickly determine whether, or not, a house has been legally converted, whether , or not, a resident can pave his lawn, and use it as a parking lot, whether , or not, one can ride over a curb, park on one's lawn and call it a driveway, and whether, or not, a resident , in a residential zone can engage in a commercial endeavor.These issues are easy to fix;I suggest sooner than later before Lowell becomes a congested urban canker.
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SUZI-Q (Guest)
ugly is well just plain ugly. Thank You
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應答 City of Lowell (Registered User)
All of these issues have been reported (over the last few weeks) to various enforcement bodies
Alex, Office of the CM
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As is the case with many of the legitamate issues that have been raised on this string and others, enforcement action is well underway with respect to several violations at 320-322 Parker Street. However, property owners have a right to due process and sometimes that process results in significant delays before the issues are remedied.
There are several outstanding enforcement actions against the property at 320-322 Parker St. Starting in May of 2011 through August of 2012, the property owner was cited multiple times for having an unregistered Ford Mustang on the property. Though the property owner eventually removed the vehicle, the fines for that violation totaled $1,500, which has subsequently been paid.
In July of 2013, the property owner was cited for use of the property as a contractor’s garage, a use which is not allowed in the TMU zone without a special permit. At the same time, the owner was cited for parking his construction vehicles on the grass at the property. The total citations for these two violations currently stands at $1,800 ($900 each).
In August of 2013, the owner was cited for having an unregistered boat trailer on the property. That citation was for $300.
The property owner has appealed the zoning violation, the parking on a unpaved surface violation, and the unregistered boat trailer violation. The hearings on those appeals before the Municipal Hearing Officer have been scheduled, but not yet completed. Despite appealing the unregistered boat trailer violation, that citation has been paid.
During the pendency of the appeals, we have not continued to issue tickets for the outstanding violations. However, when and if the appeals are ruled upon in the City’s favor, as is anticipated, the City will renew enforcement efforts until compliance is achieved.
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JPORTER (Registered User)
20 mount grove st has been aloud to do what ever they want including blocking the sisewalk with cars so school children now have to walk in the street. Meanwhile the continued corruption on the third floor of lowells city hall continues. Time to get the ethics board and media involved with the continued distruction of private property caused by the failure of the cities illegal driveway quest. Theres not much to like about lowell in 2024