73 Disordered PUBLIC NUISANCE - Corrected by Code Office

The Code office for the City of Sharon, PA was confronted with a property owner who suspended work on a demolition. The property required major rehabilitation. The owner opted for demolition. Neighbors informed this writer that the demolition had been suspended for months. They observed that the contractor was either an Amish owned firm or a firm using Amish people as employees. They thought that the Amish had been cheated by the owner and simply left the project incomplete. The Amish will not use the courts when they are cheated. They simply suspend and move on. So, from mid February to mid May the house sat with demolition spoil surrounding it. The neighbors reported
that the unfinished demolition created a rodent and roach problem.

The dangerous demolition spoil and danger it posed was corrected through the efforts of the Code office staff using the full force of law to deal with the property owner and the public nuisance of his creation. The demolition was completed in mid May.

One option available to the Code office was a daily fine of $1,000. That did the trick in getting compliance.

True to form, the owner does not live in the City of Sharon. All too often errant rental property owners live elsewhere.

150 4th Avenue in 2014 before fire and condemnation.

150 4th Avenue suspended demolition.

2014 street view of 150 4th Avenue.

Second floor walls and roof demolition spoil of suspended demolition-

-PUBLIC NUISANCE!!