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City considers better notification rules to avoid future infill fights

City officials are considering ways to encourage developers to tell neighbors when they plan to demolish a house for an infill project.

An advisory committee to the Bureau of Development Services discussed several options during its monthly meeting last Thursday morning. They ranged from a standard notice that could be posted on the door of the house to door-hangers that can be left at neighboring homes.

No one on the Development Review Advisory Committee proposed making the notifications mandatory, however. That disappointed several neighborhood representatives at the meeting who argue that neighbors should always be notified before a nearby home is demolished. Under the existing City Code, notification is not required on homes where a developer applies for a demolition permit and a construction permit on the same day.

According to Anne Dufay, executive director of the Southeast Uplift Neighborhood Program office, notification is especially important for houses built before 1973, when asbestos and lead paint were common.

Asbestos and lead paint chips can be thrown into the air if a demolition isnt done right, Dufay says. Neighbors need to know when its going to happen so they can leave or monitor the work.

Some developers arent opposed to mandatory notification requirements, including Randy Sebastian, president of Renaissance Homes, one of the largest builders of infill projects in the city.

We always go door to door and notify residents when were coming into a neighborhood, whether were planning on demolishing a house or not, says Sebastian.

Notification doesnt always stop protests, however. Sebastians company is building two new houses on a lot where a single home was demolished in the 3800 block of Southwest 46th Avenue. Anonymous handmade anti-infill protest signs have recently popped up near the project. They show a smiling small house next to a larger house with a slash mark through it.

People have the right to their opinions, we understand and respect that. But we are responding to the market. Portland is a very popular city and people want to live here right now, and many of them prefer newer, more energy efficient homes, says Sebastian.

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Demolition work included taking down a skyway over Fourth Street. (Staff photo: Bill Klotz)

The Downtown East redevelopment doesnt officially break ground until mid-May, but one of the first tangible signs of the $420 million mixed-use project is already visible in downtown Minneapolis.

On Tuesday, demolition crews took down a portion of the Star Tribune Freeman Building at 329 Portland Ave., a brick-clad downtown Minneapolis structure that stands in the way of the future Downtown East.

The 72,000-square-foot building next to the main Star Tribune headquarters building is being razed to make room for one of two 17-story office buildings within the Downtown East development.

Rogers-based Veit & Company is doing the demolition work for the projects developer, Minneapolis-based Ryan Cos. US Inc., according to a demolition permit issued April 16 by the city of Minneapolis.

Rick Collins, Ryans vice president of development, NorthCentral Region, said the building will be environmentally cleaned and demolished before the planned May 13 groundbreaking for Downtown East.

The Freeman building was built in 1982 and had an estimated market value of $1.4 million, according to Hennepin County property records. The building was linked to the main Star Tribune building by a skyway.

On Tuesday, demolition crews were seen taking down the skyway over Fourth Street.

The building sits on a property known as Block 68, part of the five-block redevelopment that includes 1.2 million square feet of office space, 28,000 square feet of retail, 420 residential units in two phases, green space and a parking structure.

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Published: 7:34PM Wednesday April 23, 2014 Source: ONE News

The next phase of major demolition work is about to begin on quake ruined homes left teetering over cliffs on Christchurch's seaside hilltops.

The task of demolishing more than 300 homes on very unstable ground is extremely dangerous and has taken a team of technical experts years to organise.

A multi-million dollar Port Hills mansion will be part of the first cluster of homes to be knocked down over the next 20 days.

"The properties on the cliff face pose a risk to falling over the cliff and to traffic and bystanders at the bottom so we're removing these top properties to create access for summertime so we can get in and move the more dangerous ones," says demolitions leader Tom Newton.

More than 300 Crown-owned properties have to go by 2016 in a new partnership between CERA, Southern Response and Arrow International.

The project is only getting underway more than three years after the quakes forced homeowners to flee.

"Getting here is difficult...it's hard to access the properties and to do the inspections geotechnically and structurally," says CERA's Brenden Winder.

Internal stripping of the homes is now almost complete. The next phase will see the excavators and demolition crews move in under close watch.

A full evacuation plan is in place in the event the unstable land beneath should move significantly. An air siren will sound and all construction workers will have to move to higher ground.

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More than 22,000 tons of construction materials have been diverted from landfills, as part of one of Vermont's most ambitious demolition and rebuilding projects ever, said Jay Fayette of PC Construction. The South Burlington, Vt. company was picked to oversee a $92-million construction job at the site of the state's former state office complex in Waterbury. Much of it, along with the Vermont State Hospital, was rendered usable when Tropical Storm Irene's floodwaters tore through in August of 2011.

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The task, which Fayette said calls for the demotion of 355,000 square feet of buildings in two phases, requires tearing down 16 buildings now, and six later. Much of the debris will be recycled, Fayette said. "The last thing you want to do is be taking down the quantity of building refuse that we have on this site, which is probably the largest in the state's history, and just be trucking it to a landfill."

Fayette showed New England Cable News how subcontractor Jackson Demolition Service of Schenectady, N.Y., is meticulously picking through the rubble. The team is sorting old wood to be burned at an electrical generating plant in Burlington, Vt. Metal will be handled by a Vermont processing company; melted and turned into new material, Fayette said. Powerful crushers are pulverizing pavement, concrete, and bricks. After, highway departments can use it under new roads, PC Construction explained.

"It's demolition," Fayette said. "You don't think much about demo. But when you have the quantities we're talking about, you have to think about it."

Fayette said so far, 22,100 tons of the bones of Vermont's former state buildings have been diverted from landfills. That's roughly 94 percent of all the material demolished on the site, he noted. Fayette said the debris amounts to about 1,000 round trips of hauling trucks that don't need to head to a landfill in Coventry, Vt. "You're saving on fuels, you're saving on roads, you're saving on air pollution," he explained.

"That's an amazing statistic," remarked David Mears, Vermont's environmental conservation commissioner, in reference to the 94 percent recovery rate.

Mears said he is proud of how Vermont sought out recyclability in its bidding process. He praised the Vt. Dept. of Buildings and General Services for what he called an impressive ethic of environmental-minded choices.

Mears added that contractors know there's a market for building materials, so that helped keep prices to taxpayers competitive. "This is not just good for the environment, but good for the bottom line," Mears told NECN. "All of us, ultimately, will benefit from this."

Mears and Fayette pointed out not everything can be recycled; not bricks with lead paint on them, or window frames containing asbestos. About 1,400 tons of that type of debris will need to be properly disposed of, Fayette said. Still, finding so much new life for Waterbury's dead buildings is a way the Green Mountain State is staying "green." "We're all proud of it," Fayette said.

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The demolition of a home on Music Row has many people upset, but historic preservationists said they did all they could to try and save it.

The Victorian-era home was built in 1878, and sat just off the Music Row Roundabout. Crews demolished the structure last Wednesday.

"I saw the building being torn down at 10 a.m. and it was gone in a few hours. I can't believe it," said Allesandro Ustione, who lives in the Music Row area.

The home was torn down to make way for a new 240 room Virgin Hotel. Ustione said it was an expensive price to pay for progress.

"I'm very happy that Nashville is growing, new businesses are good for the city, but there has to be a balance, so the history and the new can coexist," he explained.

The pile of rubble that was once the home is not hard to miss when you drive or walk down Music Row. A family visiting from England was even more shocked to find the demolition site was part of a project from one of English tycoon Sir Richard Branson's Virgin companies.

"We're very proud of our history, and we look after our historical buildings, so you would have expected someone to have pointed him in the right direction," said Keith Bleakley.

The Metro Historical Commission was very involved with the development process of the property. The director tried several approaches to try and save the structure.

"The developer met with the Metro Historical Commission in December and looked at the option of trying to incorporate the house in their development.," Tim Walker, director of the Historical Commission explained.

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