"Dump" At 418 23rd Ave. N. Is Coming Down! (Neighborhood Raccoons Expected To Be Displaced! Does The Backhoe Of Doom Have No Mercy?!!!)

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Michael Klick, who serves with me on the Hawthorne Housing Committee, emailed a bunch of folks with the happy news...

The "dump" at 418 23rd Ave. N. is coming down. The vote to demolish it finally made its way to the city council for a vote. Michael apparently watches these meetings on the internet when the agenda pertains to nearby properties, and then he spreads around the info verbally and by email. Even actions as small as that are very helpful in building "social capital." Michael told me and now I can tell the whole city: D

Ding dong, the wicked dump is DOWN.

Or, well, it soon will be.

This house is "right next door" to Michael and his partner, Brian Cheese. According to Michael, a family of raccoons lived in the building over the summer. Michael says, with obvious delight, "We won't have to sit at our dining room table looking at that boarded house anymore."