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Needham Board of Health sustains emergency condemnation of illegal Riverside Street basement unit
Summary
After staff found a basement unit lacking a second egress and with ceiling height below housing-code minimum, the Board of Health voted to uphold an emergency order to condemn, vacate and secure the unit; staff and the building commissioner will work with the owner on demolition/variance and to limit displacement time.
The Town of Needham Board of Health voted to sustain an emergency order declaring a basement unit on Riverside Street unfit for human habitation and to condemn, vacate and secure the premises.
Environmental health staff reported the December inspection that revealed an illegal basement dwelling in a two-family building with no independent second egress and a ceiling height recorded as below the state housing-code minimum of 7 feet. Inspectors said the arrangement posed an imminent danger because occupants of the basement lacked a separate, unobstructed means of…
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