Tacoma's Filthy 15
While reading the Phelps letter we came across the CARE website for Tacoma’s Filthy 15. The site gives a status on 15 run down, collapsing, or empty homes or buildings in the city. My first surprise was the number of homes I recognized from our general neighborhood. My second surprise was discovering that our city’s own art house on Fawcett is part of the list.
Filed under: City Projects, On the Market, Filthy 15
4 comments
T Tory Allen February 22, 2013
I say pay someone to tear down the billboard in the middle of the night.
F Flannimal February 22, 2013
Why can’t vandals attack this sign instead of the Grand Cinema????
F fred davie February 24, 2013
The city council signed a “settlement agreement” proposed by Clear Channel back in 2009. The agreement provided scant opportunity for public input because it needed immediate approval. The world as we know it would have come to end without an immediate approved agreement .
This agreement basically hamstrung the city of Tacoma from enforcing it’s own sign code and made it impossible for the city to control sign blight for all eternity. Kudos to the Tacoma City Council. They know more than you do.
C Christine February 24, 2013
The solution seems to lie in comments #1 and #2. Does anyone have a backhoe?