Sorry for the biblical headline there, but yesterday’s relentless rain and peals of thunder put us in a biblical frame of mind. Noah, no doubt, would have been prepared for the flood created by the newish, condo building at the southeast corner of Hermitage and Lawrence avenues. We haven’t checked the city building code, but something about the way the gutter on this four-story building empties directly onto its sidewalk, which forms a tributary feeding the main sidewalk on Hermitage (now a swamp) doesn’t seem quite right.
In addition to flooding the sidewalk yesterday, this oddly placed gutter appeared to be damaging the lawn of neighbors who should be given a medal for their lavish gardening. By way of background, the developer who built this condo building damaged this same neighbor’s house during construction and refused for some time to pay reasonable damages. The city, to its credit, shut the project down until the adjacent homeowner was satisfied. Meanwhile, the shell of the condo building sat half-finished month after month, a blight on the block. At least that’s what neighbors thought before they saw the way this thing looked after completion. Then they were nostalgiac for the shell.
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