Owner of Condemned Home Loses Appeal
The home at 1214 Gladys Avenue will likely be demolished after the property was deemed a nuisance under city ordiance.
A Lakewood man appealed the city’s recent decision to condemn his Gladys Avenue home after building and housing officials determined it to be a safety hazard. And on Thursday, the city’s board of building standards denied his appeal. “It is likely the city will have to demolish the home,” said Dru Siley, the city’s director of building and housing. Last month, the city of Lakewood declared the home at 1214 Gladys Avenue a “nuisance property” after some serious structural flaws were found. The walls are bowing out. The rear addition is detaching and falling from the home. In one night, the roof collapsed after a structural beam in the basement buckled. Those are just a few of the reasons for the city's nuisance declaration. “We’ve got kids …
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Ariana
9:07 pm on Friday, February 22, 2013
I am a neighbor and he is an obvious horder which becomes a safety hazard for him and those living close. He is lucky the house did not cave in and trap him inside. From the front and side of the house it appears mostly normal but from the back you can tell the house is falling apart at the seams... Literally. I feel bad he can no longer live in his home but it could be saving his life. more ›