Atlanta Escorts: City gets tough on its eyesores
Posted on February 1st, 2012 in Atlanta escorts
… There were shootings, prostitution, drugs, suspicious persons [calls], aggravated assaults, robberies,” said Erika Smith, an assistant city solicitor who was helping prepare a case against the property. There were even a couple dozen arrests for stealing electricity, she said. “It was like a Third World country in the midst of the neighborhood.”
Part of the difficulty of demolishing nuisance structures is that Georgia has strong property rights laws and owners can be difficult to find, often living out of state, said Farooqui. “We’re taking a much more investigative approach” to identifying and citing owners, she said.
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She pointed out that Spencer Street, which is across the street from Bethune Elementary School and in the shadow of the Georgia Dome, has several vacant homes, some of them falling down. One home has vagrants living there who steal metal. Others are magnets for drug use and prostitution, she said.
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