Posted on 03/31/2023 11:09:30 AM PDT by lowbridge
A metro Atlanta man reached out to Channel 2 Action News after seeing our investigation into the city of Atlanta demolitions. He wanted to share his demolition nightmare too.
Everett Tripodis said the city sent warnings to the wrong address before demolishing his home on Atlanta’s historic West End.
Tripodis’ property is on Lawton Street. The zip code is 30310. But the city of Atlanta demolition documents references Lawton Avenue, with zip code 30314.
“The demolition order itself gave the city and its contractor authority to demolition a home on a completely different street and a completely different zip code,” Tripodis told Channel 2 Consumer Investigator Justin Gray.
Gray was on Lawton Street on Channel 2 Action News at 5 p.m. Wednesday, where there is now nothing left but an overgrown lot.
A century-old home used to sit on the lot near the BeltLine. Tripodis and his mother bought the house as an investment property.
He said that each year, they paid to have it listed with Atlanta’s vacant property registry as required by law.
“The city had the correct address, the correct owner’s address in its internal records,” Tripodis said.
Tripodis said they were working on remodeling the home when the city demolished it.
“(We were) in the process of remodeling; they come with bulldozers and knock the entire house down,” Tripodis said. “It’s gutwrenching. I don’t even like looking at it. This is prime real estate.”
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Get out of all ‘Rat controlled Urban Utopias now.
They all belong in prison after they are personally stripped of all assets.
I’d sue the everloving bejesus out of the city.
Seem to be a lot of screw-ups in that town. But what do I know, it’s The South.
“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
-Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy
They run safe and valid elections too I am told.
The City owes this man a home, but they may slow walk giving up the cash.
Oh yes, “robust safeguards” we are assured, if we so much as make s squeak.
It’s not exactly known for being full of diligent, conscientious people. Having lived in Virginia for 35 years, I’m pretty much used to it.
Did the city intend to tear down this Lawton Street house and just sent the warnings to Lawton Avenue? Or did they intend to tear down the Lawton Avenue house which they sent proper notification to, but the contractor screwed up and tore down the wrong house?
Good thing he didn't have a house on Peachtree, or else the city may have knocked down a half dozen defore they got the right one.
John Kennedy Toole may have covered some of that subject in his famous (and only) novel A Confederacy Of Dunces.
In Philadelphia, democRATS solve problems by burning down entire city blocks.
A few years ago one of the local fire depts was responding to a fire in a row of townhouses and went around back and broke the door down to the wrong unit.
The attitude is, “oh well s***t happens” and they don’t care.
My husband’s and my mother-in-law’s votes were both stolen in the obama election.
Nothing was done. We went to vote and they were told they voted by mail.
We requested absentee ballots for the 2018 South Carolina election. Our ballots never arrived. The county election official had send our absentee ballots to an unnamed “outside” contractor, for delivery. Collusion!
interesting. they passed an election fraud bill in 2022. Also, is the election official elected? ;-)
There was an Amos and Andy episode based on the same premise.
That book is brilliant. Admittedly, New Orleans is, as I understand it, a somewhat different cat, and the book is fairly heavily Catholic, which, espeially in the time period, would only fit the south of Louisiana and the Hispanic parts of Texas, a few chunks of Maryland, maybe a quarter of the Kentucky counties, and some of Missouri. Florida has now transofrmed.
As far as the Kentucky Counties go—here is a good song by the Hilbilly Thomists—
Bourbon, Bluegrass, and the Bible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXHTem0klwc
Any way you slice them, large cites everywhere are a plague. SOme are worse than others, but I’ve put in my handful of years in four, and that’s enough.
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