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Encroachment, unpermitted additions and safety concerns keep Woodward Avenue dispute active
Summary
Neighbors and the city pressed an owner to produce surveys, plans and life‑safety fixes after inspections found unpermitted bump‑outs, a stair encroaching on a neighbor’s land and interior conditions requiring further work; the matter was continued to April 23.
A multi‑issue enforcement matter involving 47 and 49 Woodward Avenue was continued to April 23, 2025, after neighbors alleged property encroachments, unpermitted additions and hazardous living conditions.
Neighbor attorney Richard Dolberg and counsel for the abutting property presented surveys and photographs that, they said, show a new exterior stair and an attached landing bolted into the neighbor’s wall and portions of the building that encroach across parties’ property lines. City staff and the fire marshal documented interior conditions — unfinished construction, multiple makeshift rooms and inadequate egress — and urged a coordinated…
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