FYI.Homeowners continue to flaunt the local laws on fence height as well as paving of landscape within properties.
On the paving matter, an established local law on allowable % open space and landscape was intended to decrease storm water run-off into catch basins during high rain events. If you recall the numerous street flooding of past years in large part contributed to by large-scale conversion of pervious surfaces to impervious surfaces where storm water run-off overburdened catch basins.
Little has changed other than repeat annual increases in our sewer and water fees to fund new costly NYC DEP flood control projects, and little enforcement of these violators.
NYC DOB 311 Complaint Service Request obtained on-line
for 140-20 Poplar Ave. Attached a few photos of the violations, pre and post construction
1. Violation of the paving law. Removal of all lawn area / greenspace by full paving of front, side and possibly rear yard.
Service Request #: C1-1-922270731
Date Submitted: 12/29/13 10:53:00 AM
Request Type:
Details: Residential Space
2. Violation of the 4-ft fence height law.
Service Request #: C1-1-922270621
Date Submitted: 12/29/13 10:42:38 AM
Request Type:
Details: Residential Space
13 comments:
Why have laws on the books if the DOB is not going to enforce them
Is it one single vendor who sells this awful shiny "made for Las Vegas" chrome work that has been popping up all over Queens for years? I love how these "diverse cultures" put up this garbage with no concern for the character of the neighborhood or the block, thinking that anyone but their own haute couture kinsmen think this makes them high status.
Ugh!
This fucking city does not enforce any of the damn laws on the book, so just like the one person said, why have them if you are not going to enforce them. None of these agencies enforce shit, especially in Queens, DOB, DOT, DOS.
Why pay some of the highest taxes in the country, if the city cannot even enforce laws and provide a decent quality of life, notice I said decent, not even superb, which is what it should be here.
This is all that you need to know about Queens and the people that live here.
Of course the rest of the world has moved on to taste and quality but no one in their right mind wants to tip us off that we have lost touch with reality here.
Teach a pig to sing and all you do is .....
So, who is it this time, Eastern European, or Asian?
Survey says.....
Owner: LIN, HUI
Ding ding ding, we have a winner.
If you make a complaint that a contractor is not building according to plans -- by the time the DOB gets to the site to respond to the complaint -- the house is completely built.
It is pointless to exert the energy to report legitimate complaints. The DOB CLEARLY does not enforce the CODE.
Useless Agency that has harmed the citizens of New York City gravely.
THE PROBLEM IS INFORCEMENT NOT ANYONE'S NATIONALITY.
ANON stated:
THE PROBLEM IS INFORCEMENT NOT ANYONE'S NATIONALITY.
Well first off the problem is inforcement, it is spelled enforcement, it does not begin with an I.
And yes, there are certainly nationalities that engage in certain behavior. Almost every illegal conversion or other house violation in my few blocks of Jamaica are all Middle Eastern/Pakistani/Bengali, plus their properties tend to be the dirtiest, so yes, there does tend to be a pattern. To not see it is to bury your head in the sand and be totally ignorant of the problem within certain communities that are not getting addressed.
Super Halal Meat / Bellerose Meat
253-06 Hillside Avenue
It's been over 3 years, Everything was and still is in violation on this one.
THE CITY IS NOT ENFORCING THE LAWS
I have to ask, since I am not originally from New York and have never seen this type of shit before. Living in Queens and seeing this all the time, is this some kind of "people from other countries thing", because I have never seen anything like this in other places and I notice that the people who tend to do this are immigrants or others from certain countries.
Joe Moretti is right !
Its not a specific nationality thing. The Italians in Howard Beach and Bayside are building this same shit.
Enough of the pave-overs, chrome ugliness, exposed utility meters have appeared in Queens to give new arrivals that this is the way it always was. It's all cheap.
There's not enough "good" left for many to see what attractive residential urban architecture looks like. We're long past the point of no return.
Post a Comment