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BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
MARYSVILLE – Bruce Kaufman said 60th Place NE was like, “The I-5 of the walking dead.” “People would walk back and forth like zombies. They mostly came out at night.” Kaufman was referring to people who would walk to 6417 to get drugs. The house is boarded up now, and Kaufman and other neighbors are ecstatic. Arielle Jones said she stood at her window and clapped as the house was shuttered last week. It was only fitting, she said, that city workers lowered the 12th Man flag in the yard to half-staff.
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Nuisance houses without water, sewer and electricitycan now be boarded up for health reasons, thanks to a new law. This one included stripped wire, often associated with meth users, and a trashed back yard, far right.
Law not designed for those ‘down on their luck’ BY STEVE POWELL spowell@marysvilleglobe.com
Vol. 122, No. 31
MARYSVILLE – People who are having financial problems and are having trouble paying their utility bills don’t have to worry about having their houses boarded up. “This is not designed for people who are just down
on their luck,” city code enforcement officer Deryck McLeod said. The city’s new law is targeting unsafe houses that are often vacant except for squatters. They do not have water, electricity or sewer so there are health concerns. The city boarded up its first home last week and plans to
board up two more in the next few weeks. Elizabeth Chamberlin, who also works in code enforcement, said neighbors were so excited when the first house was shuttered. “One woman was in tears she was so tired of dealing with it,” Chamberlin said.
A side benefit is the homes often house drug dealers. McLeod said one disturbing thing he saw at the first boarded up house was stripped wire. “I haven’t seen that in a long time,” he said. What that signals to him is that people were using
methamphetamine; wire is often sold to recyclers to pay for drugs. Heroin has been the drug of choice for years. McLeod said people on heroin are lazy, but meth users are “up all night car SEE CODE, PAGE 6
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