part tonight we the purpose of this evening's public hearing is to present testimony in except comments on proposed action to double that demolish the residential structure at a twenty four old washington road own by the powell family is evenings here and was advertised in the observer reporter on august twenty fifth and august thirtieth the hearing notice was placed on township bulletin boards the website and cable television in addition property owners were given written notification and the property was posted counsel may take action soon and depending on the comments received at this here prior to accepting comments mr sylvester will make a brief statement followed by testimony from staff and consultants and then audience comments at this time is there anybody in the audience that is going planning on speaking on this item the c all right you have to items into the record there the report dated may sixth two thousand and fourteen from robert mason the structural engineer with ok when engineers addressing the structural status of the building then there's took all efforts legally possible to notify the property owners and their heirs specifically because the names of the two property owners were both to see just like the building and were also  able to demonstrate it to building is in such a condition that it does need to be demolished and with that i will turn it over to solicitor to call our witnesses in prior to that is there any objection anybody has to the admission and any of the exhibits that mr sylvester just went through and if anybody wants the opportunity to review those two question cross examine the anybody cross examining buddies let us know we'll provide this ok before found to be dangerous to the life help property your safety of the public or the occupants of the structure by not providing minimum safeguards to protect or warn occupants even a far or because that structure contains unsafe equipment or so damaged  dilapidated structurally unsaved work such faulty construction for unstable foundation of partial complete collapse and possible their first with this we're going to have mr muzzy come to the stand and testified to the board about the history of this site but i think back to two thousand and seven the township's efforts to bring the site into compliance and the fact that the recommendation by mr muzzy that this structure be demolished due to safety issues or mr most if you like to come up you've already been sworn in so you can testify to the board township that building inspector back in two thousand and seven after observation of these the end complaints from neighbors had gone out to the site to find the site to be  in need of a lot of repairs hamel e modem and had sent out notices to the owners of record we got absolutely no results finally somebody did come and cut the grass and make an attempt to clean up around the outside but there were no attempts to repair the house this has been going on since two thousand and seven in the past eighteen months to two years somebody has come in and stripped the home of all of it's a woman i'm siding plumbing heating elements electrical wiring of the houses here is open to the general public it's not secured foundation wall is failing there's a rear wall that has been broken through it's open to animals or any anybody that wants to get into the house the grass and the shrubs and so forth round the house have not been maintained probably for two years at this point i would recommend that the house  to review the structural integrity of the safety of the structure and to get his recommendation to the board as to whether or not the structure should be demolished per hour when robert joe mason junior robert e these are the steel columns you can kind of see that the steel the steel supporting columns of that center beam some of them are arsk you can also see all of the debris and and dirt in in the basement level if you go to the next one here you can see this is the left end of that same column or that same beam you can see some of the mud tunnels and things like that at the end that are indicative of possible termite damage next one here you can see this is the front right corner of the house viewed from the inside in the basement you can see where there's there's been some previous patchwork at that crack but that's a pretty large crack in that off the wall so both at that was were bent pipe stuck through through but basically just allows water to come through you see where the the opening of the plaster is gone and you know basically water is just able to freely flow into the house this is the kitchen space from the from the leaking roof you know it's it's obviously a pretty bad condition you can see where some of the plaster in the insulation the ceilings fallen down and you can also see some of the beginning of mold damage  this is the first floor bathroom so you can see somebody is the mall that demolished the shower stall to basically show the combination of probably water damage and termite damage damage this is a photo of another leak coming through the roof and you can see it in in the in the up series but bedroom area where you can see that basically water's coming right through and you can see all the all the debris on the floor this is a view of the left side of the house where the siding has been stripped there's another view where the if it did have it did it if it did have a trim the t gone and also the siding this is the view of the of the bathroom on the left hand side of the photo you can see that's that's basically where the bathroom is looking at it from the outside another view of that and then this is also further down towards the rear left corner of the house just a couple of questions was missing after looking at all these photos and actually you were on site yourself correct correct do you believe that the structure of firstly effects the public health and safety of the township i don't yeah i do i don't think it's  n basically the the aggregate the aggregation of all the repairs that need to be made need to be made would be more than what the the end product that the house would be worth do you believe in its current condition due to the foundation issues in the interior that is structurally unsafe yes now when you report in my career your opinion is i think with a reasonable degree of engineering certainty that the residential structures unsalvageable should be demolished yeah there's a that address for fourteen years and i didn't realize until the gentleman stated that the inspector that this has been going on since two thousand and seven and  obviously this is a real black mark on our neighborhood and we're very hopeful that you'll elected demolish the property it obviously is taking away from the value of our properties on a washington road it's a very unsafe what the engineer has said about the condition of the car i can verify are used the peters township website that allows you to open up a complaint or claim or something you might have asked the township and at that point i got involved with emily and that was i would say approximately in march of two thousand and eight so i myself have been involved with the situation  and you know basically the the end goal was to i as a property owner you know i work to maintain my property we put up a fence we went through all the jump through all the hoops and procedures we had to go  et and i trying to say the permits yes and everything that i had to do however i would look every day at this house they didn't maintain anything they didn't have to have any standards of keeping their home up and nothing i think there was a point last year last summer there was a gentleman who began appearing at the home he introduced us to him as to to us although we can't remember his first name my husband and he just said i'm here to just want to let you know that owners have hired me to begin to tear the home down which i have a nine year old daughter in her place that is directly near that home and is sometimes fearful what's coming out of that yard  right there so we should as a player there are very often but i immediately called the township and i spoke to them and i said i'm your because this person does not know if all the all the utility of been turned off has any check been done nobody knew at that point they took action and they put the they tried to contact the owners at least this is the work that i got i got from them and i have no reason not to believe what they said so they put the tape up around the home put a notice do not enter propre at markings on the home and i think with maybe a few months time went by they were able to contact the owners but again again they got resistance from the owners  so again my statements here just to support that i can definitely see that all the steps were taken from my my wrist questions and things that complaints that i have put through and i can see that again i've been involved since two thousand and eight trying to get this matter resolved and i surely do hope that you do the right thing and have it taken down because it is a huge nuisance in the neighborhood next thank