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Hello all
I've had my second meeting with the city of Malden and a random engineer ( one came yesterday and a different one came today ) we went over all the issues the majority of homeowners are having with the work on wyeth st. we started from the top again. we started at the porter potty that's blocking the sidewalk for roughly 2 months now and hasn't been cleaned once it's a horrible smell and not only does it make pedestrians have to walk in the street it smells horrible. we asked them to have it removed and they stated it's not our porter potty. I then stated I'll have it removed. the engineer stated if I touch it he will call the police and have me arrested. I told him if it's not yours then it's abandoned and should be removed anyways. The engineer then remembered it was a friend of his porter potty. I stated perfect let's have it removed . Mr lip stated it's very costly to move the porter potty and since it's a construction zone it legal can be there. I told him I use throne Depot daily and it's free to have it moved. I told them not a single worker has been here in months besides to dump trash on the street. I then stated what if someone walks around it and is hit buy a car there is majority kids living at that corner. he stated " hopefully the car has insurance because it would be their fault" I seen then there was no solution for this porter potty I'll be reporting it to the health department. next we moved on to the trash on the corner. we asked if it could be removed as it's trash no other reason. again they stated it was a construction site and I stated it's not to us. I told them kids play on it jumping from rock to rock can you put a fence around it then. they both stated there is no need and a fence isn't in the budget. ( saftey wasn't budgeted in again) we then walked by driveways that used to be pitched towards the street now pitched towards the houses. the engineer said it looks fine to me I argued my case by putting a level on the driveway showing it was or used to be pitch towards the street and that got us nowhere . we moved on to the patio that vanished. one day our neighbor had a patio then poof gone. the engineer stated he personally did the site plan and there was no patio. the neighbor wasn't home to tell this engineer but was at yesterday meeting. after me assuring this engineer there was a patio he stated it wasn't a nice one and was very old. this is correct but it wasn't their patio to disgaurd or to judge how important to the owner. He then said the dirt is better then what they had but this wasn't a joke to us. we then moved on-to the 2.5 inch lip to get onto the curb that then allowed people to get into their homes. I asked since they don't know when this job will be done can they put ramps ( as they always do in every city in mass while working on the roads) I stated a person in a wheel chair can't get on the sidewalk . they then stated it won't have a lip when we are done. I said ok I'll let the guy in the wheel chair know he's going to have to walk until they get time to do the street. The engineer stated how did they use the sidewalk before I (noted to ask) we then moved onto my driveway. I told them they cut my driveway up while I was at work and came home to a muddy mess. they installed new asfault on a part of my driveway. I stated if they are going to do shotty work on the street and the sidewalks there is nothing anyone on our street can do besides wait till the winter when a plow tears it up but we do have a say in how you do the work on our property. The engineer stated that I have no right to tell him what's right and what's wrong I told him I have a csl and know how asfault should be installed properly. I could also get my own engineer out to do a core sample in my driveway to check to see if there is the correct underlayment. he then stated I can't do that. the engineer stated if I didn't have underlayment in my driveway before they wouldn't have put it back. apparently the rules are when doing road work is "if it was wrong before it will be wrong again" I then told him is that the rules with the gas lines and water lines when you redo them? gas was leaking before. that pipe was about to break before we started so we put a half broken pipe back? I had part of my driveway removed today and found there is no underlayment and just complete mud under the asfault. Mr lip stated nothing is going to be fixed so what are the residents looking for. I said we will fight this pour work to our properties with a lawyer if need be but until then we are looking for the saftey issues to be fixed in a timley manner. he then stated there is nothing unsafe about Wyeth st. we had to agree to disagree. I told him I would send pictures of the shotty work to our properties along with a recap of the interaction on see click fix. he said please just email me directly . I told him I preferred that everyone knows what's going on. he then blocked our account on see click fix