One man’s trash is another man’s tenant’s loose tires, copper pipes, and splintering wooden cart of debris and furniture.
Local landlord W. Matthew Harp floated that idea at a series of back-to-back civil citation hearings involving some of his properties, which saddled him with nearly $20,000 in fines.
Harp and his lawyer convened with representatives of the Livable City Initiative (LCI), the city’s anti-blight and housing code enforcement agency, inside a second-floor City Hall meeting room on Tuesday morning to contest four civil citations over conditions at several of his properties. Volunteer hearing officer Julie Bernblum issued fines for three out of the four citations…