BEWARE!! TOOTHLESS ROTTWEILER ON DUTY!!

Robbing Peter to pay Paul seems to be an unwritten tenet in Portland's City Code Book:  yesterday, the Bureau of Development Services served two "Notice of Code Violations." One was served to both  Michael J. and Linda M.Wright, and  Daniel and Donna L. Cossette regarding the "Recreational Campground" (read: homeless refuge)  established by them in NW Portland at 4th and W. Burnside, of which they are co-owners.


The second Notice of Violations is way more interesting, since the City Bureau of Development Services has notified...the City Bureau of Parks and Recreation, "owners" of Lownsdale Square, the two park blocks directly across 4th avenue from City Hall!  At least the service of notice was convenient:  just "two doors down," as Dolly Parton has sung.  We have not only a new definition of "irony," but a wonderful insight into how governments function.   If the seven blatant and serious violations of Oregon State Building Code, Portland City Code, Oregon Revised Statutes, Oregon Structural Specialty Code,  Property Maintenance Regulations, and the National Electrical Code existing at Lownsdale Square are not corrected within 30 days, the City will fine the City, and the fees double if uncorrected for 90 days.  Oh, and since there are more than 20 "units" in the Occupy Portland Anarchistic Campground, the fees are scheduled as $583 per unit.  For those who attended Portland Public Schools, that amounts to "a buncha money."  A buncha money in addition to the quarter-million dollar cost of restoring what used to be a beautiful Public Park.  Of course, nobody from "Occupy Portland" will be held accountable for defacing public property.  Such is the fruit of allowing the namby-pamby treatment of mindless zombies who claim a "cause."


You can call  Michael Liefeld, Section Manager of Neighborhood Inspections and Compliance Services, 
at 503-823-7332 
to congratulate him for using common sense and courage in this situation, which attributes seem to be sorely lacking in both the Mayor's and City Commissioner's offices.  
Read the full text of the Notices at the Portland Tribune site:

http://www.portlandtribune.com/documents/efiles/Occupy%20letter.pdf

-neon leon