[nndl] Rooming House vs McDorm

Regards, Olivia

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>Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:43:51 -0500

>Subject: [NNADL] Rooming House vs McDorm

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>The city sz no more than six unrelated persons can live on one
lot

>which includes a McDorm and in our case the garage apartments
behind

>them without falling under the 'rooming house' ordinance. The
McDorm

>leasing agents/management companies know this and will not admit
to

>having any more than 6 tenants. Code enforcement doesn't bother
to

>get back to us when asked to investigate an overcrowded
McDorm.

>

>The 4 Mcdorms on our one block of Caswell have raised the
appraised

>value of improvements, in five years, more than 100 times. That's
not

>100% but 100 times the former property tax revenue which is
being

>collected by the city. Yet, services have declined.

>

>There is only one sidewalk, between Airport and Duval,
on the west

>side of the 5100 block of Caswell, which Ridgetop Elementary
students

>from north of 51st can walk down to get to school. The trash
and

>brush from the McDorms is still, after weeks of complaining,
blocking

>the sidewalk. The kids have to walk out into a street
clogged with

>the vehicles of the unsupervised young people renting these 26
new

>bedrooms. We call 311, we get our incident #s and still there is
no

>follow-up.

>

>Because of the high turnover, new tenants coming and going
every

>month, the city would have to police our streets weekly, forever,
if

>the McDorms are to be kept from getting out of hand. And, of
course,

>the city is the weak link. We're not likely to keep them focused
on

>our problems. With no adult or frat chapter to teach McDorm

>youngsters and ride herd on them, perhaps we should concentrate
on

>the leasing agents. Pressure on each leasing agent/management
company

>to continuously teach and supervise their tenants, followed up
with

>fines and bad publicity, could be Northloop's best chance to keep
a

>lid on this mess.

>

>The www.traviscad.org web site 'appraisal roll' names the
absentee

>owners of the McDorms. Some of our home-owner neighbors have

>complained directly to the McDorm owners, apparently, no
avail.

>Anyone know how we can track down all of the leasing agents?

>

>Louis & Pam

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