Less than a third of the $32,500 Jonathan Shilalis is required to pay for multiple land use and construction violations will be applied toward code enforcement penalties, with $20,000 covering Norway’s legal expenses.
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Early numbers show Lewiston apartment inspections are working
LEWISTON — Three months after deciding to begin regular inspections of apartments rented to General Assistance clients, city staff say they are keeping up with the workload, and data shows the inspections to address safety issues are working. The city’s decision in October came after repeated concerns from a downtown landlord led officials to review the policy, […]
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Share code enforcement costs
Charging owners of rental housing in Lewiston for each apartment, just to fund code enforcement, would be a very discriminating charge. Isn’t the code enforcement division there for all the people of Lewiston? Why should owners and occupants of rental housing have to pay more toward that department — more than owner-occupied housing? At a […]
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Lewiston landlords clash over rental registry
LEWISTON — After just one meeting of a new housing committee looking at creating a rental registration program in the city, landlord Jay Allen quit. Allen, whose Six Sigma Properties operates roughly 32 rental units in Lewiston, had previously spoken in favor of a registration program, which would charge multiunit property owners annual fees to […]
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Committee will look at rental registry in Lewiston
LEWISTON — A new committee will go back to the drawing board on a proposed rental registration program in Lewiston, after some landlords questioned the initial framework during a City Council workshop last month. The council voted unanimously last week to create an ad-hoc advisory committee on rental registration, a system that would charge multiunit property […]
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Gil Arsenault retiring as Lewiston code director
LEWISTON — When Gil Arsenault was hired by the city more than 30 years ago, personal computers were not yet uniformly used in city government, downtown streets were lined with more apartment buildings and planning and code enforcement were part of a larger development office at City Hall. Since becoming director of code enforcement in […]
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Livermore couple denied variances for building
LIVERMORE — The Appeals Board voted 2-1 Wednesday to deny two variance requests from Alan and Wendy Castonguay, who want to construct a building within 87 feet of Round Pond and 14 feet from Carpenter Point Road. The Castonguays’ lot has a building about 12 by 18 feet that is 35 feet from the pond. […]
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J. Lysen: Enforcing housing codes
Lewiston Mayor Robert Macdonald got it all wrong in his April 29 letter that responded to Ben Chin’s April 19 guest column that analyzed the proposed changes to the city’s new comprehensive plan draft. Chin raised concerns that mandatory enforcement of housing codes, along with accountability for violations, had been removed from the draft. Chin […]
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R. Macdonald: Employees unfairly criticized
As mayor of the city of Lewiston, I was appalled — but not surprised — by the accusations leveled at the municipal staff by Ben Chin of the Maine People’s Alliance in his guest column “Code enforcement necessary to drive out slumlords” (April 19). Code office staff checked with Chin to ascertain the location of […]
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Farmington selectmen to take first look at proposed budget requests
FARMINGTON — The Board of Selectmen will take their first look at the proposed 2015 town budget when they meet at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 6, at the Municipal Building. The special meeting was scheduled to allow each department director to present their requests to the board prior to the Budget Committee starting work on […]