Neighbor and engineer reports long‑burned home; county inspector posts 'do not occupy' sign
Summary
A Buchanan Park resident and registered structural engineer reported a fire‑damaged house at 5118 View Ridge Drive; county inspector posted an unsafe‑structure placard and the resident offered technical assistance to development services.
John Sladek, a Buchanan Park resident, urged county action on May 6 regarding a privately owned home at 5118 View Ridge Drive that burned about three years ago and remains a neighborhood concern.
Sladek said he lives at 5531 Clifffield Drive and that he prepared a letter to the county with photographs documenting the damaged home. He identified himself as a registered Washington civil and structural engineer with roughly 50 years of experience and said he had observed the property from public vantage points but had not entered the site.
"Inspector Chance was posting a do not occupy unsafe structure placard on the home," Sladek said, indicating the county had recently taken enforcement steps. Sladek offered to assist Development Services with technical information and inspection coordination.
The board thanked Sladek for bringing the matter forward and noted that county staff had already engaged on the issue.
AI generated
The text on this page is AI generated. Summaries, highlights, analysis, and video transcripts are all produced from the original source material.
AI can make mistakes, so if you spot one, and we will fix it for everyone.
Note: the source content is unaltered by us. Any content source we link to, be it a video, an audio recording, or a document, is presented exactly as its publisher released it. That publisher is usually a government body, sometimes an individual official or another organisation.
