Fire Code Disputes Are a Pane.
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Sunday May 3, 2009 section B
WHISTLEBLOWER Only in your Sunday paper.
FIRE CODE DISPUTES ARE A PANE
*Landlords object to a wave of city-ordered window replacements to meet fire safety code.
By CHRIS HAVENS and JAMES ELI SHIFFER Star Tribune staff writers
A little over a year ago, housing inspectors told landlord Bernice Knajdek to replace some old windows on one of her two duplexes on St. Paul's East Side. So she did.
This year, the inspectors tolds Knajdek to replace them again. The city of Saint Paul said they didn't pass muster as "egress" windows, big enough to allow occupants to escape a fire or firefighters to climb in.
"What made me mad, is on the one house, I just had new windows put in the bedroom a year ago," said Knajdek, 74, who has since spent $5000 replacing eight windows on the duplexes she owns down the street from her home. "Why didn't they tell me then?"
Knajdek's is one of the voices of frustration that have flooded St. Paul City Hall over it's recent drive to bring rental properties in line with fire code. Since March 2007, city fire inspectors have ordered property owners to replace 1,125 windows, some of them unchanged for decades, because they're not big enough to meet the standards for escaping a fire.
Dick Lippert, the city's code enforcement chief, acknowledges that the recent flurry of window violations has created an impression "that we were on some kind of crusade. We are not. We have always done the best we can to call all these things."
The enforcement push has come amid a debate within the city's Department of Safety and Inspections (DSI) about whether it's overstepping its authority over existing buildings. internal disagreement has led to situations in which one St.Paul inspector has issued permits for new windows, only to have another inspector condemn those windows as unsafe weeks later.
(There is more to this story. I will get it up later)
PHA has also been ordered by the city to replace its windows in its hi-rises and family units around the city.
Hey Chris Coleman
why not just condemn every house in St.Paul and tear them down.
Strong arming these old people is just your way.
Lawyers like Chris Coleman knows just how far to push people and then watch these elderly fall to government dictator-ship.
Then put these old people in a nursing home, take their property away from them, and tell the courts they were senile.
We seen the same thing happened to Nancy O's. home.
Thank you Bob for doing your part in helping who you can.
From Mr.Bad "A"
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Is PHA some kind of government agency.
Who know about this.
Thank You.
It's a total rip off while the buddies of city officials get rich installing windows. Probably windows loaded with formaldahyde or some other health risk. Perhaps our resident insulation specialist could do some research and get back to us.
No need for big elaborate explanations. It's just the dip shit bureaucratass who like to push people around.
Sounds like another lawsuit coming to me. Just like the other ones, it's just a matter of time till they find the right guy to pick on.
Just like the other ones? The ones that were thrown out of court or the ones that were lost?
They are not all going to get thrown out of court. Sooner or later there will be an honest judge who will do the right thing.
Oh yeah- its the judge.
Is everyone on this website retarded, including chuck and erik?
Everyone fights or complains on here and none of you make any sense. Cesspool of the nobodies.
You'll see
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