Thursday, July 06, 2006
Thompson cracks down on bungalows
Two owners of bungalows in a colony off Route 17B have been slapped with fines for unauthorized building.
Town of Thompson officials fined two owners in the Garden Bungalows near Monticello Raceway $3,000 each and ordered one owner to tear down a bedroom and porch addition because it wasn't built to code. The other owner built a laundry room. The projects were done without building permits and during a temporary construction ban in bungalow colonies. That ban has since been lifted.
"They tell their neighbors they will just pay the fine and it will be OK," Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini said. "Well, it is not going to be OK. We have laws. Everyone else abides by the laws."
Thompson recently tightened its building laws for bungalows and has been on the prowl lately for shoddy work.
The new rules require residents to build for year-round use and, under most circumstances, on foundation slabs.
"It was basically shoddy construction," the town Planning Board's attorney, Paula Kay said. "They are building where children are living. The town is not going to tolerate it when families, especially children, are put in danger by shoddy construction work."
"I don't believe people are doing it on purpose," said Rabbi Bernard Freilich, the state police's special assistant to the superintendent and a liaison between the towns and the Hasidic and Orthodox communities. "I think a lot of people are just unaware."
Friday, Thompson evicted six families in the Empire Cottages colony off Route 42 near the high school. That colony was building without several permits, and didn't have hot water in some of the bungalows.
"We went door to door and told people to leave," Kay said.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/07/06/news-vwbungalow-07-06.html
Two owners of bungalows in a colony off Route 17B have been slapped with fines for unauthorized building.
Town of Thompson officials fined two owners in the Garden Bungalows near Monticello Raceway $3,000 each and ordered one owner to tear down a bedroom and porch addition because it wasn't built to code. The other owner built a laundry room. The projects were done without building permits and during a temporary construction ban in bungalow colonies. That ban has since been lifted.
"They tell their neighbors they will just pay the fine and it will be OK," Thompson Supervisor Tony Cellini said. "Well, it is not going to be OK. We have laws. Everyone else abides by the laws."
Thompson recently tightened its building laws for bungalows and has been on the prowl lately for shoddy work.
The new rules require residents to build for year-round use and, under most circumstances, on foundation slabs.
"It was basically shoddy construction," the town Planning Board's attorney, Paula Kay said. "They are building where children are living. The town is not going to tolerate it when families, especially children, are put in danger by shoddy construction work."
"I don't believe people are doing it on purpose," said Rabbi Bernard Freilich, the state police's special assistant to the superintendent and a liaison between the towns and the Hasidic and Orthodox communities. "I think a lot of people are just unaware."
Friday, Thompson evicted six families in the Empire Cottages colony off Route 42 near the high school. That colony was building without several permits, and didn't have hot water in some of the bungalows.
"We went door to door and told people to leave," Kay said.
http://www.recordonline.com/archive/2006/07/06/news-vwbungalow-07-06.html
Comments:
You can stay in a tent with out door facilities all summer and no one cares, so why does a bungalow have to be more substantial? It's like camping out. Oh, where have the Good Old Days gone, where bungalow colonies had no life guards, day camps, and leaking sewer pipes?
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