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Resident urges council help after repeated flooding and heavy-truck damage on Fourteenth Street NW

3087123 · April 23, 2025
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Summary

Resident David Laferney told council that his neighbor, 94-year-old Irene Gray, has endured repeated basement flooding and what he described as aggressive code-enforcement complaints; he also complained construction trucks using Fourteenth Street NW have damaged the street and shaken nearby houses.

At the Committee of the Whole meeting on April 21, resident David Laferney, of 219 Fourteenth Street Northwest, addressed council about repeated flooding at his neighbor Irene Gray’s home and related enforcement and street-damage concerns.

Laferney said Gray has lived at the address since 1955 and has experienced multiple floods that have forced the…

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