Comments on Advance Indiana™: Is It A Private Club?

See zoning file for early permit request and appro...

2006-08-30T21:03:00.000-05:00

See zoning file for early permit request and approval letters. They will answer some questions and raise others.

anonymous - No, they write the laws and they break...

2006-08-25T07:34:00.000-05:00

anonymous - No, they write the laws and they break them at will!

I drove the Julia Carson building after work. It h...

2006-08-22T17:34:00.000-05:00

I drove the Julia Carson building after work. It has been almost a week since the MDC meetingand still no PERMITS on any ofhte doors leading into the restuarant / bar.

Do these people not care about the law and regulations ?

2006-08-21T18:19:00.000-05:00

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glad to hear it, 6:07. I'm kinda tired of Amos's ...

2006-08-20T08:40:00.000-05:00

glad to hear it, 6:07. I'm kinda tired of Amos's rants, as if he is the ONLY voice for AAs in Marion County.

He's lazy, a hate monger and from his verbal assaults on radio, it seems he believes no non-AAs can do anything productive for his community or the community in general. It's so tired and ordinary.

He rails against Abdul regularly. And Abdul has his moments, too...but he works hard by attending meetings, contacting sources, getting stories.

If Amos redirected his blather toward some of the same kind of efforts Abdul shows, he'd be a decent reporter again. He once was.

We, african-americans in Center Township, will not...

2006-08-20T05:07:00.000-05:00

We, african-americans in Center Township, will not let it become a race issue. This is ABUSE, ABUSE, ABUSE.

Amos Brown does not speak for us, he speaks for himself, Radio One, the Recorder, and the crooked black leadership in Indianapolis, PERIOD. Furthermore, he is a coward, he won't even stand up for the people in the community against crooked black politicians. Most African-Ameican's have not respect for him and dislike him. He works for the radio station and the Recorder and therefore speaks for them, not the people. He's a dinosaur, stuck in the 60's, a victimologist. But, like dinosaurs, his extinction is near...

Anyone who's ever used the DMD permit process know...

2006-08-19T08:04:00.000-05:00

Anyone who's ever used the DMD permit process knows they're horribly under-staffed and overworked.

But, still, an inspector found his/her way to this building site and cited them for numerous violations, as AI has reported.

In each case of a violation, the reasons are posted on the premises and the Landlord is notified in writing.

So the trustee knew about these violations, or should've known, long ago. June.

Why then the (current) righteous indignation by the trustee?

And, whatever happens, don't let the trustee, and Amons Brown and the others who want to slide this through, turn this into a race issue. It is NOT.

A certificate of completion and compliance should ...

2006-08-18T15:59:00.000-05:00

A certificate of completion and compliance should be filed with DMD after the construction is completed and before the building is occupied or used. Here, no such certificate could be filed once the stop work order was issued, and once the GC was cited for the numerous code violations. The law clearly requires the owners to satisfy the code requirements, along with the zoning/variance issues prior to it doing business. The restaurant/bar should not be used at all until DMD was satisfied that the construction was completed in compliance with applicable building standards and procedures and the zoning/variance approvals obtained.

Would the Stop Order have prevented the use of the...

2006-08-18T15:27:00.000-05:00

Would the Stop Order have prevented the use of the facilities for any use until all other permits, variances and zoning changes had been properly processed, filed and completed.

If this goes through, how long before the Mayor ge...

2006-08-18T09:48:00.000-05:00

If this goes through, how long before the Mayor gets his private bar in the City County Building?

Oh wait he probably keeps his liquor in his desk ...

I listened, too, and found Julia's voice and atten...

2006-08-18T07:42:00.000-05:00

I listened, too, and found Julia's voice and attention span akin to a tottering older, failing person. That made me sad. She's earned the right to rest.

Her one comment, regarding her admonition to CD to get public comment on this concept, was, to those of us who know Julia's ways, a very telling remark. She is clearly irritated that her underling has drawn this kind of criticism to her or the building.

Your observations regarding the discrepancies in this application, are serious. As for the DMD questions about a June 9 visit, and a Stop Work Order being issued over a week later: the workload at DMD is unreal. That kind of backlog will not surprise anyone who works within the system regularly.

DMD staff visits construction sites and reviews plans as often as time allows. A nine-day backlog for a Stop Work Order isn't bad. I have done zoning work in the Miami and CHicago area,s and absent a severe worker safety issue, SWOs are often this backlogged, or worse.

The only culprit who needs criticism at DMD is the hearing officer.