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I Regular Council Meeting 2 July 28, 1992 3 Page 11 4 5 6 7 The Manager reiterated to Mr. Hoban that things like 8 bottle rockets, flashing lights at night and parking in 9 front of neighbors houses to spite them were all 10 instances of neighbors just not getting along. He agreed 11 that shooting bottle rockets was against state law but 12 repeated that the offense has to be seen personally by 13 the city authorities to enforce the law or one of the 14 neighbors has to file a complaint and go to court. Mr. 15 insisted the police and he had talked to the offenders 16 but that was all they were empowered, to do. He also 17 denied that any favoritism was being shown to Mr. Hanson 18 or Mr. Brown because of their connection with the Fire 19 Department. He also confirmed that the officer who had 20 responded to his call about the parked car had been 21 working a different shift and wasn' t aware of the 22 problems other officers were working on down on Pahl. 23 24 The Manager told Mr. Hoban he intended to call the 25 Pollution Control Agency to find out whether they had 26 investigated the presence of the chemicals Mr. Hoban had • 27 described in that neighborhood. He said the agency would 28 be able to determine how much "Purak" can be stored in a 29 household garage and how it should be handled. 30 31 Dennis Cavanaugh, 2909 St. Anthony Boulevard, rose to 32 speak to the issue. He . said he perceived the steps which 33 were to be taken to solve the problem on Pahl might not 34 apply to other locations in the City where there are 35 similar complaints. He said he thought the time had come 36 for residents of St. Anthony to get together to tell the 37 City officials what "our standards are in the City" . He 38 indicated he terms what 's happening all over St. Anthony 39 as the "Northeast Crawl" where the slow deterioration of 40 northeast communities is evident from Marshall Avenue N. 41 E. past Central. Mr. Cavanaugh stated he perceived this 42 to be happening because in the 80 ' s a generation was 43 raised who believed in rights but not responsibilities. 44 The resident insisted that St. Anthony had more examples 45 of "Northeast Crawl" than the City wanted to admit. As 46 an example he cited the two restaurants in the same 47 neighborhood which sat next to residential property with 48 vegation which wouldn't have been tolerated in any other 49 first class community. He further identified a plumbing 50 operation and a house on Silver Lane "where cars seem to 51 propagate like roaches" as cases in point. The resident