Home on Gladys Avenue Condemned, Boarded Up

The police took the homeowner into custody on Tuesday for numerous citations — and an effort to remove him from the home.

The city of Lakewood condemned a Gladys Avenue home after building and housing officials determined it to be a safety hazard. 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 who live next door,” said Kevin Butler, the city’s law director. The police took the homeowner into custody on Tuesday for numerous citations — and in an effort to remove him from the home at 1214 Gladys Avenue. The windows and doors were boarded up and the property was declared a nuisance under city ordinance. Butler said the home will likely be demolished. …

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