Islip officials are planning to tear down one dilapidated house and clean up others, it was recently confirmed.
Among property on Wisconsin Avenue in Bay Shore, there are two structures that have been identified as “severely damaged”, unsecured, and with broken windows and doors as a result of a previous fire. Robert Valetta, assistant town attorney described the buildings at a meeting of the town board that passed the resolutions to demolish them. Valetta said the house has already partially collapsed, and the rest of the building is now in danger of fall apart as well. A building inspector issued a notice that the structures should be removed.
The board considered seven other cleanup and board-up resolutions, and passed five of them. In Brentwood, a home on Chapel Hill Drive is to be boarded up or cleaned up. Valetta described it as a health, safety and fire hazard, citing debris, litter, and a missing chain-link fence as the elements making the property unsafe.
Although the town has passed many resolutions in the past, officials are now becoming more active in addressing the problems of rundown houses. They could work with a professional flyer printing company on a mailer for community residents explaining the planned work in the Central Islip area, and urging homeowners to maintain their property.
