Here are some of the people that the HGA needs to talk to about derelict houses. Blogfinger photo ©
Paul Goldfinger, Editor @Blogfinger
Instead of striving for some real action on the subject of derelict houses, the OG Home Groaners Association has scheduled another house tour. The first one attracted thirty people. The promo for that event says that you should go “for a bit of history.” No history lesson will solve this problem.
The OGHA is potentially the most powerful group in town, but instead of strength and results, they are weak and ineffective on this issue. Neptune Township needs new laws to help them penetrate the outrageous stalemate regarding those monstrous fire hazards called “derelict houses.” In fact, there are towns all over the country faced with similar problems. How about some research into what they are doing?
Home Groaners: Why don’t you stop the mumbling and the walking tours, hire some buses, get a few hundred people together, and picket our elected representatives and the governor in Trenton to do something to give us better tools to solve this dilemma.
KELLY HOGAN
Ironic that Fast Eddie talks of proactivity and then asks for Fire Inspectors name. I politely suggest Fast Eddie either simply call the Township or Fire Department.
The current township leaders don’t seem to want to do anything. I think they know that they can just ignore the problem, OG has fewer and fewer votes. A lawsuit might get them off their butts, but that would take a lot of $$$$.
Certainly the Home Owners Association realizes that new legislation takes inordinate amounts of time. But if these derelict houses are the fire traps you claim then tearing them down by targeting them through fire inspection laws should be easy enough.
Lord knows you don’t have to go back very far on record to see what devastation fire can bring to this community. Proactively bring these derelict houses down before they take your house with it when they go up in flames. Bring in the Fire Inspector and get it done!
So what is the Fire Inspector’s name so citizens can contact him?