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'. N COMING UP WITH A PROPER ADDRESS FOR MR. TOWNSEND. HE NOTED THAT THIS IS A PIECE OF PROPERTY IN SUMMERPLACE RIGHT ON THE OCEAN, WHERE MR. TOWNSEND POURED A FOUNDATION THREE OR FOUR YEARS AGO, BUT HAS NOT CONTINUED THE STRUCTURE AND THERE HAVE BEEN NUMEROUS COMPLAINTS FROM THE RESIDENTS OF SUMMERPLACE. CHAIRMAN WODTKE ASKED IF THE STRUCTURE IS WITHIN THE DUNE LINE, AND ZONING DIRECTOR WALKER STATED THAT IT IS, BUT THAT IT WAS PUT IN BEFORE THE COASTAL CONSTRUCTION SETBACK WAS ESTABLISHED AND IS GRAND- FATHERED IN. MR. WALKER CONTINUED THAT ACTUALLY THIS IS A BIG PILE OF SAND WHICH BLOCKS THE WALKWAY TO THE BEACH. THE FOUNDATION IS THERE, A FEW BLOCKS HAVE BEEN LAID, AND SOME STEEL IS STICKING UP. HE FELT IT CONSTITUTES A REAL HAZARD. MRS. RYMER AGREED AND STATED THAT THEY ARE ASKING THAT THE STEEL BARS BE BENT BACK AND THE FOUNDATION COVERED WITH SAND, A RESIDENT OF SUMMERPLACE STATED THAT THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE WEST OF THIS PROPERTY HAVE LOST THEIR EASEMENT TO THE OCEAN BECAUSE MR. TOWNSEND EXCAVATED THIS FOR HIS SO-CALLED FOUNDATION. HE NOTED THAT IT IS A TERRIBLE EYESORE FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER Loy, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ADMINISTRATOR TO PROCEED TO ABATE THE NUISANCE AND DEMOLISH THE HAZARDOUS STRUCTURE OWNED BY JACK F. TOWNSEND ON LOT 9, BLOCK G, SUMMERPLACE UNIT FOUR, BY BENDING OVER THE STEEL RODS THAT ARE PROTRUDING AND COVERING THE FOUNDATION WITH SAND. THE BOARD NEXT DISCUSSED THE STRUCTURE OWNED BY EZEKIEL AND EVELINE FENNEL, AND MRS. RYMER STATED THAT SHE HAS NEVER BEEN ABLE TO GET A NOTICE TO THESE PEOPLE, MR. -WALKER STATED THAT MR. FENNEL IS DECEASED, AND ATTORNEY COLLINS NOTED THAT THE BURDEN UNDER THE ORDINANCE IS TO SEND NOTICE TO THE LAST KNOWN OWNER ON THE TAX ROLL, WHICH HAS BEEN DONE. ON MOTION BY COMMISSIONER SIEBERT, SECONDED BY_COMMISSIONER SCHMUCKER, THE BOARD UNANIMOUSLY AUTHORIZED THE ADMINISTRATOR TO PROCEED 33 3vii �P