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Is the NLEC in violation of zoning laws?

"When New Life Evangelistic Center receives the Abram Building, it will close its shelter for 15 women at 5811 Michigan in south St. Louis."
--Exhibit 13 http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2004/exhibit_13.pdf

City assessor's office:
http://stlcin.missouri.org/assessor/detailresult.cfm?parcelid=28930000800&strResultMsg=5811%20Michigan&addr=5811%20%20%20%20%20MICHIGAN%20AV

Land use: two family unit

Zoning regulation:
26.08.130 Dwelling, two-family

    A building containing two dwelling units.

26.08.160 Family.

    A person, or group of persons immediately related by blood, marriage or adoption, living as a single housekeeping unit; also a group of not more than three (3) persons not necessarily related by blood, marriage or adoption, living as a single housekeeping unit. (Ord. 62588 § 2 (part), 1992.)
http://www.slpl.lib.mo.us/cco/code/data/t2608.htm

Posted by andy at 07:18 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)

Another good day out at Lucas Park.  We had a lot of people out there cleaning, edging, and actually painting the benches.

I've posted a few pictures up to show the hard work everyone is doing as we continue to improve our neighborhood and send out the message that nuisance and criminal behavior is no longer tolerated in our back yard.

The rule is very simple, "You work, you eat." Period.  Simple and fair.

" First Coat"

 

 

The next episode of "Dirty Jobs" with Mike Rowe...

 

Boyz in da hood

 

Edging of the park...

 

 Aftermath of bbq...

 

Today's bench painting completed...

 

 

Thanks again to one and all for their hard efforts in cleaning the park.

Posted by andy at 09:05 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

Well we made a dent and had a write up in Sunday's Post Dispatch...

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/D9F4F3A4CD167E45862574C4000A487E?OpenDocument

Steve has a good writeup on his site at
http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/?p=3928

and additional pictures at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanreviewstl/sets/72157607272795481/

Thanks to everyone involved!!!

 

Posted by andy at 06:40 AM | Permalink

Event: Lucas Park Cleanup and Picnic
Date: This Saturday (9/13/08)
Time: 8:00 a.m. - noon (cleanup); noon on (picnic)
Rain Date: following Saturday (9/20/08, same time)

Last Wednesday 10 individuals formed a group with the sole purpose of making the neighborhood better. The 10 of us share a simple philosophy:

Get 'er done

We all agreed that while there are many things that we can do to make the neighborhood better, the first thing that needs to be done is beautify the park.

Rather than spend a lot of time planning, we decided to act NOW.

So, we hereby invite you to join us to clean up the park this Saturday, September 13th from 8 a.m. until noon.

After noon, we will be having a picnic in the park.

We will be doing more to improve the neighborhood in the near future. We could wait for the city and others to help us with this.

But do you really want to wait?

 

Posted by andy at 09:56 PM | Permalink

Hmmm.

This is interesting...

Part of the discrepancy in figures here owes to the fact that this
initial $40+ million estimate – made in a 2004 document in
conjunction with NLEC attorneys – is largely outdated. This
estimated sum reflected a more positive potential market value of
NLEC media equipment and property; e.g., what all NLEC
equipment and property could have potentially sold for in 2004. In
hindsight, this estimate was likely too high to begin with, the
falling market trends in the years since notwithstanding.

From...

-- http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2004/2007_NLEC_Financial_Report.pdf

also available here:

http://www.newlifeevangelisticcenter.org/2007_NLEC_Financial_Report.pdf

...and...

http://www.martello.org/NLEC/Case_104-cv-01159-RJL07092004.pdf

Filed 7/2004

http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2005/Case1_05-cv-01449-RJL.pdf

Filed 7/2005 (count how many times they state $40,000,000.00)

 Now take a look at their 2002 Financial report:

http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2004/exhibit_11.pdf

$6,762,900.00 in real estate assets?  Hmmmm..

How do they figure $40-50 million?

 Especially when it's SWORN UNDER OATH...

http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2004/exhibit_18.pdf

Feel free to browse the exhibits at

http://www.martello.org/NLEC/2004

 

 

Posted by andy at 07:35 AM | Permalink | Comments (0)