tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post2107322670634317056..comments2024-03-28T14:37:17.081-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: Paint and Historic PreservationCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-30129173284630931762019-05-18T15:23:58.626-04:002019-05-18T15:23:58.626-04:00I have been next door to this house for 10 years. ...I have been next door to this house for 10 years. It used to be covered with old vinyl siding, the walls were full of rats and roaches that came over into my building. The populations of rats and roaches would go up and down because the rats ate the roaches, so when there were less roaches, there were rats, when the rats were killed off, more roaches. There were opossums living in the walls of the house, who knows what else. Leaking roofs, poison ivy in the yard, it was a mess. The house was renovated, gutted, updated, the vinyl removed and the old wood siding repaired. The rats and roaches are now gone, as are the former occupants who had used my backyard to park junk cars and garbage bins, they also walked through it to get to the alley because they were too lazy to put a gate in their own fence, and had done it for so long they believed they owned it. So it is in much better shape, certainly not demolition by neglect in this case. Can't say painting the doors was a great idea, but overall a small issue compared to the others. SlowArthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15182629761582261749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-29803644665639712042019-05-17T15:09:46.132-04:002019-05-17T15:09:46.132-04:00Laws are only as good as the infrastructure is to ...Laws are only as good as the infrastructure is to administer & enforce them- so really, just more demolition by neglect. David Marstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17805425229362358449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-88984020669388746802019-05-17T13:00:04.130-04:002019-05-17T13:00:04.130-04:00Our historic preservation is a joke. For a town wh...Our historic preservation is a joke. For a town whose main asset is it's historic architecture, we are doing nearly nothing to protect it. Owners do as they please, willy nilly, and there are no consequences. We need stronger rules, or there won't be anything left.Cynthia Lamberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16611234458613584346noreply@blogger.com