703_Depot_St_Demo_Letter.pdf

7/3/25

Sent Via U.S. Certified & Regular Mail and Personally posted on Premises Raquel Tejada 467 Adirondack Dr.

Farmingville, NY 11738

Re: Demolition of Hazardous Structures Pin Number-13510040030

703 Depot St.

Scranton, PA 18509

To Whom It May Concern, PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY. IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ITS

CONTENTS, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT THE CITY OF

SCRANTON, PENNSYLVANIA IMMEDIATELY. MY CONTACT INFORMATION IS

NOTED ABOVE.

After review of the above-mentioned property, it is determined that the property shall be demolished as an EMERGENCY due to the dilapidated condition of the structure. The property has been cited numerous times with Quality-of-Life tickets and complaints, and to date nothing has been done to rehabilitate the structure. As time goes on, the structure has not been maintained, is deteriorated and unsanitary, nor is it kept at a regulated temperature. The building constitutes a danger to the life, health, and safety to the public and surrounding structures.

You are well aware that vacant structures are an attractive nuisance to children, a potential fire hazard and a harborage for rodents and insects along with being a potential home for vagrants.

Vacant buildings also create a blighting influence within the community and devalue surrounding properties.

The City of Scranton’s Office of Economic Community Development (OECD) implements a program entitled Demolition of Hazardous Structures to eliminate hazardous structures. This program is federally funded through the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Community Development Block Grant Program. Following the demolition of this property the City of Scranton’s Office of Economic Community Development (OECD) records a lien at the Lackawanna County Courthouse on the property for all costs incurred for demolition of the above-mentioned structure.

Please accept this Notice as an Order of Demolition. The above-captioned property will be scheduled to be demolished as an EMERGENCY on or after TWENTY (20) days from the date of this letter . This Order is standing and continuous until the date of demolition. In addition, a citation may be issued at the magistrate’s office for non-compliance.

110.1 General: The code official shall order the owner of any premises upon which is located any structure, which in the code official judgment after review is so deteriorated or dilapidated or has become so out of repair as to be dangerous, unsafe, insanitary or otherwise unfit for human habitation or occupancy, and such that it is unreasonable to repair the structure, to demolish and remove such structure; or if such structure is capable of being safe by repairs, to repair and make safe and sanitary, or to board up and hold for future repair or to demolish and remove at the owner’s option; or where there has been a cessation of normal construction of any structure for period of more than two years, the code official shall order the owner to demolish and remove such structure, or board up until future repair. Boarding the building up for future repair shall not extend beyond one year, unless approved by the building official.

Section 108 Unsafe Structures and Equipment

PM- 108.1General:

When a structure or equipment is found by the code official or code official’s agent to be unsafe, or when a structure is found unfit for human occupancy, or is found unlawful, such structure shall be condemned pursuant to the provisions of this code.

PM-108.1.3 Structure unfit for human occupancy:

A structure is unfit for human occupancy whenever the code official finds that such structure is unsafe, unlawful or, because of the degree to which the structure is in disrepair or lacks maintenance, is unsanitary, vermin or rat infested, contains filth and contamination, or lacks ventilation, illumination, sanitary or heating facilities or other essential equipment required by this code, or because the location of the structure constitutes a hazard to the occupants of the structure or to the public.

Section 106 Violations

106.3 Prosecution of violation: Any person failing to comply with a notice of violation or order served in accordance with Section 107 shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor or civil infraction as determined by the local municipality, and the violation shall be deemed a strict liability offense. If the notice of violation is not complied with, the code official shall institute the appropriate proceeding at law or in equity to restrain, correct, or abate such violation, or to require the removal or termination of the unlawful occupancy of the structure in violation of the provisions of this code or of the order or direction made pursuant thereof. Any action taken by the authority having jurisdiction on such premises shall be charged against the real estate upon which the structure is located and shall be a lien upon such real estate.

Demolition Section 110

Section 107.6 who has received a compliance order or upon whom a notice of violation has been served to sell, transfer, mortgage, lease or otherwise dispose of such dwelling unit or structure to another until the provisions of the compliance order or notice of violation have been complied with, or until such owner or the owner’s authorized agent shall first furnace the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee a true copy of any compliance order or notice of violation issued by the Code Official and shall furnish to the Code Official a signed and notarized statement from the grantee, transferee, mortgagee or lessee, acknowledging the receipt of such compliance order or notice of violation and fully accepting the responsibility without condition for making the corrections or repairs required by such compliance order or notice of violation.

106.3 Transfer of Ownership: It shall be unlawful for the owner of any dwelling unit or structure

Transfer of Ownership