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BOARD OF BUILDING APPEALS
Meeting Minutes
June 11, 2009
A public hearing of the Board of Building Appeals of the City of Salem, Virginia, was
held after due and proper notice in the Council Chambers, City Hall, 114 North Broad Street, at
9:00 p.m., on June 11 2009.
The Board, constituting a legal quorum, presided together with Steve Yost, City
Attorney; Charles B. Aldridge, Building Official/Zoning Administrator; and Mary Lutz,
Secretary; and the following business was transacted:
I. CALL TO ORDER
Chairman Hildebrand called the hearing to order at 9:15 a.m.
II. ROLL CALL
Present: David A. Botts; Robert S. Fry, III; Vice-Chair Scott E. Gardner; and Chairman
John R. Hildebrand.
III. PUBLIC HEARINGS
A. This hearing is to further discuss the structure located at 905 Kyle Lane (Tax
Map # 39 – 1 – 5). It has been deemed by the City of Salem Building
Inspections Office to have deteriorated to the extent that it has become unsafe,
unsightly, and is so dilapidated as to become dangerous to the safety of the
inhabitants of the City of Salem.
Chairman Hildebrand: I’d like to convene this meeting to consider notice to show
cause of why the structure at 905 Kyle Lane should be demolished. This is the purpose
of our meeting. Mr. Aldridge is to ask Mr. Banks or his representative to respond to our
show cause order.
Mr. Aldridge: Let me fill you in on what we did up until this point. This has been an
ongoing situation for many years. It has been a situation where Mrs. Banks lived out of
town and we dealt with that over quite a long period of time and then she became ill and
passed in fact and then we went through a period with Mr. Banks and I think Mr. Dorsey
can fill you in on some of that. We did deliver notices to them by the Sheriff’s
Department. We had to deliver one to Mrs. Banks, which came back undeliverable of
course, because she is deceased. Mr. Jerold Banks did get served notice by the Stafford
County Police Department that this hearing would be held today, so they have been
notified. Now we will just call on the ones that present the case for or against this. Mr.
Dorsey, please come up and introduce yourself and share your role in this.
Mr. Dorsey: I’m Jeff Dorsey and glad to be here today. There are a number of issues in
this case and I will tell you how I have been involved and I guess am still involved. I
originally represented Ms. Clarissa Banks and from the title to this property is somewhat
messy. I can talk to Mr. Yost about that but there was a Mary Alice Marshall, I think that
the notice that was sent for today. It was sent to Jerold Banks on behalf of a Mary Alice
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Marshall. I’m not exactly sure of her involvement. She passed away and I believe she
might have left a half interest of this property to Richard Herby. I don’t know if he’s
been notified or not but I don’t know what his status is. Clarissa Banks owned I believe a
third interest, her son Jerold Banks owned a two-third interest, would be my
understanding. Clarissa Banks passed away and Jerold Banks is the executor of her
estate and he had been in contact with me for quite awhile as we attempted to negotiate
the possible sale of this property. That did not occur. Clarissa Banks, who was an older
lady, I believe she believed that she could get this property fixed up and obviously that
was not going to happen and didn’t happen. She understood that eventually it was going
to have to be torn down and I can represent to you all that I think that that it is clear today
that it needs to be torn down and should be torn down. So, I can say that I formally
represent Jerold Banks in this through Clarissa Banks, I guess via her original retaining of
my services. There is a couple of issues regarding this property that I think are
significant. One is what I would request, the practical issue is what I would request today
is that I did not get notice of this hearing. I found out about this hearing just a few days
ago. That’s not the end of the world but what I would have like to have had prepared for
you, possibly is a breakdown of some of the title issues. The other issue is that Mr.
Aldridge was good to provide me awhile back with some of the layout of this property.
This property is landlocked. You can’t get to this property except by going through Mr.
Kyle’s property. Mr. Kyle has been very patient. His property kind of surrounds this
property and Mr. Kyle, I know, has been very patient in trying to deal with this issue.
This is an eye sore obviously for him and his property. I guess what I am requesting that
the Board do today is, I think that there are some possible notice issues as to, I don’t
know whether there are any other possible owners is the issue. I don’t know if that is
significant or not but what I am requesting that the Board do today, if the Board is so
inclined, is to give the owner(s) sixty days to remedy this problem via demolition. I
guess I don’t want the City to have to demolish it and incur an unknown expense when I
believe that the owner(s) might indeed be able to have that done in a more cost effective
manner. Secondly, there is an access issue. I guess I would like some statement by the
City that Kyle Lane is a public street or a recognition from Mr. Kyle and I don’t believe
that this would be a problem that access in an out of this property is not going to be an
issue because it is landlocked, if Kyle Lane is not a public street. That is my issue. I
don’t think there is any dispute that it needs to be demolished.
Chairman Hildebrand: We’ve heard Mr. Dorsey’s request but I have one question
though. Kyle Lane, is it or is it not a public street?
Mr. Aldridge: It is not a public street.
Chairman Hildebrand: Then how will, to meet the other condition of his proposal, get
access to demolish this property. Would that be granted?
Mr. Aldridge: There is an unofficial easement through there and I think maybe if Mr.
Kyle would like to come forward, maybe he could better explain it than I can.
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Mr. Kyle: Thank you gentlemen. I am Joseph Kyle and am at 801 High Street. That is
my address. There were three houses in this section. I live in one; my address is 801
High Street. There is a house that I owned next door which is 903 Kyle Lane. Kyle Lane
came about because we have had instances in the past when the emergency crew and fire
trucks and what have you could not find the place. One day I came home and saw the
sign Kyle Lane. It was a way of marking it for the emergency squad and so forth. The
City also uses Kyle Lane because it is one way of getting into the other properties in that
we adjoin Stonewall Forest. That is basically it. The thing about this property, I guess
I’ve been dealing with it ten or fifteen years and have made requests to get it torn down
over the last four or five years at least. I know a lot about the property because once I
looked after the property for Mrs. Banks when she was living. I guess over the last ten or
fifteen years, I’ve cut the grass and taken care of this property just to keep it up and not
work against the other properties. The house itself, in terms of whether it needs to be
torn down, certainly it does because this house really has not foundation. On one end, it
sits on bricks and it is not on a level lot because it is almost like a triangle. One end sits
right near the property line. I don’t think anything could really be done with the property
in that sense. I think the expenses on it just keep rising to do anything with it. Of course,
my issue is that it really does need to be torn down and I think the description given to
you is that is dilapidated. You cannot fix it. My fear is that someone is going to set it on
fire. This is in a wooded area there and I am always fearful of this. One reason is
because it is on a private area and we don’t get a lot of transient people but I always fear
that some derelict might get in there and set the whole thing on fire up there. I’m here
today because I have been working on this for quite some time. We just need to demolish
it. As far as Mr. Banks and them doing anything, I don’t think that is going to happen.
We have been corresponding with Mr. Banks and the lawyer for some time and if he
hasn’t responded up until this point, I doubt that he will. Second thing, I don’t think he
would be interested because the worth of the property is such that the expense of it
outweighs the gain. He had a chance to sell it a little earlier and he would have been wise
to have gotten rid of it then. Now, what the property is worth actually and not having any
frontage on High Street or anywhere, really, it is kind of a losing thing. My interest in it
is that we do need to tear it down for the safety reasons and so forth. I think that is my
biggest concern. I did not come with the idea of making a presentation but I think if you
have been by and have seen it, then there should not be much there to defend. I don’t
believe that sixty days would make any difference. I think we will be right back where
we started.
Chairman Hildebrand: Alright, thank you.
Vice Chairman Gardner: I have a question, Mr. Kyle. You said that you have been
maintaining the property for some years. Do you know the last time that someone lived
there?
Mr. Kyle: Yes, I’d say roughly 20 years ago.
Vice Chairman Gardner: Who was that? Was that Mrs. Banks or one of her family
members?
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Mr. Kyle: No, it was rented.
Vice Chairman Gardner: The only other question I had was this Kyle Lane, there is no
official reported easement across that property? Is that my understanding?
Mr. Kyle: Well there is only the one lane in there and everyone uses it. When I say
everyone, I mean it is the only way to get into Stonewall, the subdivision area. It is the
only way of getting in there so the Electric Department and anything that has to be done
goes through there. On the map, I think there is an easement across there at one end of
that property.
Vice Chairman Gardner: Okay, thank you.
Mr. Aldridge: You may want to see if anyone else has anything to present. I noticed
someone else has come in and also see if Mr. Dorsey has anything else to present.
Mr. Dorsey: Jerold Banks is here and he was just a little bit late. Come up Mr. Banks
and I have reviewed with him some of the issues. I think he agrees that it needs to be
demolished. I have spoken with him and he lives out of the area, obviously and his
concern is the same as my concern is this access issue and having some time just to get
this resolved himself so that there wouldn’t be an unknown expense by the City doing it.
I think he agrees it needs to be demolished and wants to have it demolished and again
requests a thirty or sixty day period to get that done. Is that a fair statement Mr. Banks?
Mr. Banks: That is a fair statement. First of all, good morning, I apologize for being
late. I drove up from Stafford, VA and then I got about ten miles from here and had a
medical emergency. My wife fainted at work so her boss had to call me and let me know
that they just took her to the hospital but I am here. This property goes back my
goodness, to the eighteen hundreds. The problem with this property is from my vantage
point is getting rid of it. My mother hired Mr. Dorsey and she was working that way and
then at her death, I hired Mr. Byrd, Mr. Raymond Byrd. He is not here today but he is
representing me on this. Here is the problem with this property. The City of Salem sends
me a notice for property taxes and my mother paid the property taxes up until the time
that she died in 2006 and then I have been paying the property taxes. If you look on the
tax report here in Salem, this property belongs to Mary Alice Marshall, who died in 1965.
The City of Salem will not get any money from Mary Alice Marshall. She is dead; you
will not get any money from her relatives. The problem being is that because this was
family property, my mother who got it from my father, who got it from Stuart Banks,
which was his brother, and Mary Alice Marshall and my father’s brother’s wife were
sisters. Somehow, convoluted when this property came to us in 1843 and I have the deed
in my truck. It has come down through generations. I personally don’t want the
property. I want to sell it. I have someone who is willing to buy it with the house on it.
My problem is that I cannot get a title with my name on it to get rid of it. Mr. Dorsey had
tried when my mother was living. It is just that this thing with Mary Alice Marshall
because this letter that I got from Mr. Aldridge, who I have talked to, it always comes out
and the taxes come out the same way, Jerold Banks or Clarissa Banks in care of Mary
Alice Marshall. To be honest with you, I’m 54 years old and I don’t even know who
Mary Alice Marshall was. I never met the lady while she was living a day in my life.
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Obviously she was my aunt’s relative but for her to stake any claim on this property
somebody would have to come back and say for the last 29 years that we owe the Bank’s
family some part of the property taxes that they’ve been paying on this property. I
understand this gentleman’s (Mr. Kyle) concern about the property. I have the pictures,
the house is dilapidated and it needs to come down and it is truly an eye sore. I don’t
know if 60 days is going to be enough time. What Mr. Byrd is doing, along with
Attorney Dorsey is trying to go through a title company and see if there is any way, with
the documents that I gave him that we can just get a clear cut title to this property so I can
just get rid of it. That is all I want to do is get rid of it.
Chairman Hildebrand: It seems to me that this makes our job a little more difficult. It
seems certainly easy enough when Mr. Dorsey requested 60 days to accomplish the
demolition of the property. That does seem reasonable to me and if Mr. Kyle would
provide the access since there is no official easement to the property. If Mr. Kyle, as the
adjacent owner, would agree to provide access and allow any possible encroachment on
his property by the necessary equipment and trucks and so forth, it looks like we could
resolve it readily and reasonably. Would that compromise your position if we proceed
with the request that Mr. Dorsey made for this sixty day period to accomplish the
demolition? Let’s say it gets implemented and accomplished, would that leave you
hanging? Would that compromise your position in any way with what you hope to
accomplish?
Mr. Banks: From a financial standpoint, it would. If the City demolishes it then I am
responsible for reimbursing the City of Salem in some way. I don’t want to speak for Mr.
Byrd because once again, he is representing me and now Mr. Dorsey is representing me
since my mother’s death, but Mr. Byrd put it to me like this, I don’t want to quote him
out of context but he said I could just not pay the property tax at all and the City would
own the property because ultimately me and my mother never owned the property
anyway. It belongs to Mary Alice Marshall. He says that he doesn’t know why out of
just the kindness of my heart or I just wanted to keep the property in my family. He said
he didn’t know that he would have paid property taxes on property that he didn’t own for
the last 29 years. He says that he doesn’t see the reason why my family did that.
Mr. Yost: May I make a comment or two, Mr. Chairman?
Mr. Dorsey: Or can I have a moment to speak with him (Mr. Banks) about a couple of
issues?
Chairman Hildebrand: Certainly.
Mr. Yost: What I was going to say, listen to this. There are two ways to do this. One
way if this gentleman’s family demolishes the property themselves, they are going to
have to come up with cash money without having the property sold or these title
problems resolved. So, they would have to put the money up front. I understand where
he is coming from. I mean again, the other way to do it for the City to simply to do it and
what happens in that case, the cost of it are merely assessed just like real estate taxes. It
would simply be a lien on the land that ultimately, I presume, would be paid off when the
title problems are resolved and the property is sold. That way the family would not have
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to put the money up front without having the property sold. That is one issue. The
second issue that concerns me, or at least I think we need to get straight is the state code
gives jurisdictions very broad authority where in situations, where of course, buildings,
structures are so dangerous or so dilapidated that they can create a danger for the public
in general. Under those circumstances, the state code says that the City can go in and
demolish the property. That is about all it says but we have an extensive ordinance where
we have taken this authority that has been granted to the locality by the state and there are
notice requirements. Let me just point this out, and maybe Mr. Dorsey and some others
can help us here. In our ordinance, it says of course, that we give notice and we do that
primarily, there are various ways, but the preferred way is to have a Sheriff’s Department
in the jurisdictions where the owners live to actually serve it on them, which is above and
beyond of course regular first-class mail or certified mail. I think that was what was
attempted to be done here. The problem, of course, is that based upon the records of the
Clerk’s Office, and those again are determined by what private individuals file in the
Clerk’s Office, we don’t have all of the names of all of these owners that may exist by
virtue of death and inheritances over these many, many years. We only have what these
folks have recorded and there apparently has been very little recorded related to who
heirs at law are, etc. since the time of Mary Marshall’s death in 1965. So, I guess my
concern is that, under our ordinance, it states that if we do not know who all the owners
are or if as it states here, through reasonable diligence, we can’t find out, then what we
are supposed to do under those circumstances is to post a notice on the premises. I don’t
know whether any notice has been posted.
Mr. Aldridge: Yes
Mr. Yost: In addition to that, which we’ve done that, we are to give written notice by
registered mail to all other owners that may become known to us. I guess my concern is
Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Banks may be able to give us names of other individuals. You may
want to consider, certainly Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Banks may want to talk a minute and that
is up to you, but it seems like a reasonable request to me to try to work this thing out as
amicably as we can. It would seem to me that whatever you do we should set this over.
You could say we are going to give you, for example, an opportunity to do it yourself or
to allow the City to do it but what we would also want to do in the interim before
anything is torn down is to get any other additional names, set another meeting, and give
notice to these other folks that Mr. Banks or Mr. Dorsey may be able to provide us
names. I hope I haven’t confused things.
Mr. Dorsey: I think that would be exactly our request, I appreciate that. I guess the
other piece of the puzzle that I would like to know from Mr. Aldridge is, is there or do
you have any idea if the City does it, how much will that cost?
Mr. Aldridge: No I don’t. Typically what we do on that is we get three bids from three
different contractors and we take it from there. We, the City, do not do it.
Mr. Dorsey: I would like to make a formal request that this be set over for sixty days in
an attempt to either resolve it or provide further information.
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Mr. Yost: What you all (Board) will first have to do is make a finding that the building
is so dilapidated, decayed or unsafe as to become dangerous to the safety of the
inhabitants of the City. I think that is appropriate because there appears to be no dispute
whatsoever about that. Then I would suggest that you (Board) continue this meeting for a
period of time in order to allow us to give notice to any individuals that Mr. Banks and
Mr. Dorsey can provide to us. I am talking about maybe thirty days or something like
that in which we would give these folks, and again, I don’t want to tear down somebody’s
property if all of the owners that we know of at least, have not been notified that is what
we are planning on doing unless they can come in here and tell us otherwise.
Chairman Hildebrand: Alright, as I understand Mr. Yost, you are looking to this Board
for two actions. One is to make a formal finding that the property is dilapidated and
should be demolished.
Mr. Yost: Yes
Chairman Hildebrand: We need to make a motion
Board Member Botts: I make a motion that we find that the property is dilapidated and
such a danger that it be torn down.
Chairman Hildebrand: Do we have a second?
Board Member Frye: I second.
ON MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER BOTTS, SECONDED AND AMENDED
BY BOARD MEMBER FRYE, AND DULY CARRIED, the Board is of the opinion and it is
accordingly so ordered that;
a. The decision to deem the property as dilapidated is hereby acknowledged.
David A. Botts Aye
Robert S. Fry, III Aye
Scott E. Gardner Aye
John R Hildebrand Aye
Mr. Yost: I think Mr. Kyle wanted to make a comment.
Mr. Kyle: Yes, I’m not sure what the procedures are but the old issue of tearing down
the property and safety issues have been taken care of here but the legal issues could go
on and on for some time. I think, as I remember, some of Mrs. Marshall’s relatives are
probably up in Maryland or up that way. That may be quite a long thing. My interest is
that we need to, since it is unsafe and if you have seen the pictures and everything, it
needs to be torn down. The legal issues and all of that is another thing there. We just
need to demolish it.
Board Member Gardner: I don’t think we are looking at extending this very far. I
think the problem the Board is going to have is just determining who the owners of the
property are. If I understand the code correctly, we just have to make a reasonable effort
to determine who they are. We don’t have to have some full fledged legal determination.
We don’t have to go to a court to determine who the owners are or have a title done. We
just have to make a reasonable inspection of the records.
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Mr. Yost: I agree with Mr. Gardner. What I would suggest, Mr. Kyle, is I would tell
Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Banks that if they’ve got any names of any potential owners and
addresses, give them to us. If we don’t get them, I don’t know what other reasonable
effort we could make other than that.
Mr. Kyle: Well, it is my understanding that Mr. Dorsey has, I thought, had done that.
Mr. Dorsey: I represented one potential or alleged owner.
Mr. Yost: Well, and if he has done that, wonderful. We don’t have that information yet
and we need to send a mailing for another meeting to any of those folks. Again, I
wouldn’t think that meeting should be more than thirty days off. We don’t have to make
an exhaustive search, as Mr. Gardner said. We don’t have to get a court determination.
We have to use reasonable diligence to find out the names and addresses of these folks
and to my way of thinking, reasonable diligence is to ask Mr. Banks and Mr. Dorsey to
provide us with any information they may have. If they provide that information, we’ll
give notice of another meeting. At that next meeting, what I would envision happening,
either this Board would tell the City to immediately proceed to demolish it or to give Mr.
Banks and the family a certain period of time to do it themselves. And, if they don’t do it
by a particular date that the City would take it over. I would think that you are looking at
sixty to ninety days at the most before it is demolished, one way or the other. Again, I
am not a member of this Board but I am trying to be as fair and honest with everyone
here at least from the City’s perspective on this. To me that seems like a reasonable way
to approach it. As an attorney, I am real concerned that we give anyone who we know
that might even have the slightest ownership interest notice of what we are doing and we
are required to do that by the ordinance.
Mr. Kyle: Sounds reasonable.
Mr. Yost: If that is satisfactory, Mr. Chairman, I guess we just need to try to set a date.
Chairman Hildebrand: We appreciate Mr. Kyle’s patience as he indicated in his
previous remarks. This has been a problem for a long time for him and we appreciate
you letting us carry this meeting over for thirty days anyway. Hopefully we can resolve
and proceed with the demolition. I would like to ask Mr. Banks though, if you would
have any objection if everything proceeds as the City Attorney has indicated here that we
proceed with demolition if everything comes out as outlined.
Mr. Dorsey: I think the only issue that in addition to providing the additional names of
potential owners, which we certainly appreciate and we will diligently do as much as we
know between Mr. Byrd, Mr. Banks and what I know, we will deliver to Mr. Yost any
other potential names and addresses that we know of but the other issue is and I assume
that Mr. Kyle is stating that access is not an issue and that we are allowed access to the
property.
Mr. Yost: For the purposes of the demolition.
Mr. Dorsey: For the purposes of demolition, that we are allowed access to the property.
There may be a prescriptive easement but there is no easement of record that I know of.
In the interim, I’m going to discuss with Mr. Banks and he has got to assess whether his
ownership interest, if he has any at all, is significant enough to front money to do this
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himself or to let the City do it. Obviously he understands he can either come back to the
next proceeding or not and I will talk to him about that. He’s got more lawyers than he
can swing a stick at so council can appear for him and represent his interest. If he wants
to come back, he can or cannot. In the interim, if he wants to hire somebody or other
members of his family want to hire somebody to come in there and demolish the thing,
obviously that would resolve the issue.
Board Member Botts: How long would it take, Mr. Banks to get these names to Mr.
Yost?
Mr. Dorsey: We are in attempt to do that in the next couple of weeks or so.
Board Member Botts: I’d like to limit it to two weeks at the most to provide the names
of any possible owners so we can get this thing moving.
Mr. Dorsey: I think that is reasonable, I can work with Mr. Byrd and find out what he
has on the title. I have title notes and it may be that we don’t know anything further than
what is known but we can do that in a couple of weeks.
Mr. Banks: The documentation for ownership is in my truck now. When I met with Mr.
Byrd, he ran copies of everything so Mr. Dorsey can get with Mr. Byrd and they surely
can get that to Mr. Yost sometime next week because it is already here is Salem.
Mr. Dorsey: That shouldn’t be a problem.
Chairman Hildebrand: But then the question becomes, what period should we continue
this meeting? Should we still stick with the thirty days or should we revise the motion to
incorporate in here an interim deadline for two weeks for the ownership data to be
furnished to the City Attorney?
Mr. Dorsey: Here is my only concern on that issue is, I don’t have any problem with the
two weeks on the notice issues, that is fine. If Mr. Banks or anyone decides to go
forward with the demolition on their own, all of us are familiar with construction trades
and all of that, I just hate to put a thirty day deadline on that and then have them not be
able to get somebody within thirty days. That is why I said sixty.
Chairman Hildebrand: It is thirty days to continue, to have another meeting.
Mr. Yost: Conceivably, at this next meeting, whether it is thirty days off or whatever, if
the family wants to demolish, they can be given an additional thirty days at that time if
they want to. It would be up to this Board to make that decision.
Mr. Dorsey: Okay, then that answers that question.
Board Member Botts: Does this have to be put to a motion?
Mr. Yost: I would appreciate that, Mr. Botts, that they will provide that information to
the City Attorney within two weeks and that the City Attorney and staff (the Building
Official) will proceed to give notice of the meeting to any names of those individuals
prior to the meeting.
Chairman Hildebrand: My question was should we then continue a meeting to resolve
this matter and put a deadline of thirty days on it?
Mr. Yost: You could set the exact date right now if you know your schedules. If you
don’t, it may take some coordination.
Chairman Hildebrand: Mr. Botts, please go ahead.
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Board Member Botts: I’d like to make a motion that we give Mr. Banks and his
attorneys two weeks to provide the City Attorney the names of any possible owners so
that we may contact them to see if they have any ownership interest in this property and
that we will get the correspondence out to those owners to establish if they do have an
interest.
Mr. Yost: And to advise them of the date of the next meeting.
Board Member Botts: And to advise of them of the date of the next meeting which will
be somewhere around thirty days when we meet again. We will look at our calendars
later to establish the actual date of that meeting for you to provide the prospective
owners. And at that time, we will discuss further demolition talks.
Mr. Yost: That is fine.
Chairman Hildebrand: Do we have a second on that?
Board Member Frye: Second
ON MOTION MADE BY BOARD MEMBER BOTTS, SECONDED AND AMENDED
BY BOARD MEMBER FRYE, AND DULY CARRIED, the Board is of the opinion and it is
accordingly so ordered that;
b. The decision to give Mr. Dorsey and Mr. Banks two weeks to provide the City
Attorney with any possible owners and addresses and also continue this meeting within
on or about thirty days is hereby acknowledged.
David A. Botts Aye
Robert S. Fry, III Aye
Scott E. Gardner Aye
John R Hildebrand Aye
Mr. Yost: We would also notify Mr. Banks, Mr. Dorsey, and Mr. Kyle of the date and
time of that meeting.
Board Member Botts: I assume that there is nothing stopping Mr. Banks from the
interim if they demolish on their own to circumvent any further action.
Mr. Yost: That is correct.
Mr. Aldridge: If you do decide to do that before then, just have your demo contractor,
whoever that may be to come to my office and we will issue a demo permit so then it will
all be on the record as doing such.
Mr. Dorsey: Yes
Mr. Aldridge: And if it comes to that and you would like some contractor names that do
demo work in this area, please get in touch with my office and we will provide names of
who we have.
Board Member Botts: It wouldn’t hurt for you to get an estimate anyway so you know
what you are dealing with.
Chairman Hildebrand: Thanks to everyone for their patience in trying to work through
this.
Mr. Dorsey: Thanks for all of your help.
B. There were no other petitions presented before the Board.
VI. PUBLIC ADDRESSES
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None
VII. UNFINISHED BUSINESS
None
VIII. NEW BUSINESS
None
IX. ADJOURNMENT
Chairman Hildebrand adjourned at 10:13 a.m.
ATTEST:
John R. Hildebrand, Chairman
Board of Building Appeals