A month after the police chief promised more resources to combat violence in the city, the number of crimes continues to climb, including four more killings last month and another in the first few hours of this month.
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Sanford said that the standards for occupied and vacant buildings should be different. One example she gave was that a vacant building should not be required to have working hot water.
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Sanford and Judy Stadler the regulatory affairs director of TREBIC had marked up the entire 35 page International Property Maintenance Code (IPMC) which the current proposed ordinance uses as the standard to which all nonresidential buildings in Greensboro have to comply. Sanford said that when they removed what didn’t apply to nonresidential buildings and what was duplicated in other regulatory codes that they had reduced the portion they considered applicable to about eight pages.
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So what does it take to get a dangerous property torn down and hauled away when said property isn’t a property that is desired by UNCG or one of Greensboro’s connected developers? Why are there 300 properties waiting to be demolished and no funding to do so? Is there bias in the enforcement of the laws concerning public safety?
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A letter to the editor published by the News & Record today originally referred to “Trump knob polishers.” Knob polisher is a euphemism for one who performs a type of oral sex on a man. Hours later, the News & Record tried to hide what it had done.
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“You’re forced to take (a drug) or you lose your housing,” Everhart explained. “And I didn’t like having to do that at all.”
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Greensboro police are declining to describe any techniques or devices used to control man who died in police custody this week.
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As is often the case with this City Council which rarely meets, different councilmembers had different bits of information about the various appropriations to economic development agencies. It’s one of the reasons that governments, businesses and other groups trying to work together have meetings, so that everyone involved has the same information and they can hold a rational discussion. Since this Council doesn’t meet very often, it spends a lot of its time together discussing what could unkindly be described as gossip and more kindly as secondhand information.
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