18—The Daily Collegian Thursday, Sept. 1, 1983
Town, gown meet to settle housing situation
Continued from Page 1
By ANNE CONNERS
Collegian Staff Writer
violating an ordinance which limits to three
the number of unrelated people living to
gether in a single-fdmily home.
"I would really love to talk with you
people," Rita Foderaro of the Holmes-Fos
ter Nighborhood Association told Under
graduate Student Government President
Emil Parvensky after the meeting. "You're
a victim of the landlord and if I live next
door, I'm a victim of the landlord too."
Steve Mastrofski, also of the Holmes-Fos;
ter Association, invited students to meet
with the assocation and "deal with (the
landlords) who are profiting from the dete
rioration of these neighborhoods."
Parvensky said that the students would be
more than willing to meet with the neighbor
hood associations, but added that towns
people would have to place more trust in
students.
"Just like the'e's no typical citizen,
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there's no typical student," Parvensky said.
"To group us into one and say that all of us
are irresponsible is a travesty."
Borough officials unequivocally told the
audience that they would enforce the three
person limit and crack down on noise, health
and property maintenance violations
measures that most of the citizens support.
Health Officer Mark Henry, Zoning Offi
cer Carl Hess, Code Enforcement Director
James Quigley and Police Chief Elwood
Williams all told the audience what action
their departments had taken as a result of
the concern about the preservation of single
family neighborhoods.
The borough officials passed out a citi
zen's guide to "Solving Housing and Mainte
nance Problems" and State College
Municipal Manager Carl Fairbanks pre
sented a report detailing the borough's
efforts for solving the noise, parking and
property maintenance problems that often
result when groups of students live in single
family neighborhoods.
To control the noise problem, Williams
said that a Wednesday, Friday and Satui
day night "strike force" has been created to
keep things quieter on what he said students
traditionally regard as party nights.,
`You're a victim of the
landlord and if I live next
door, I'm a victim of the
landlord too.'
Encouraging citizen input, Williams said
that the police will be trying to respond
more quickly to noise violations by putting a
higher priority on those complaints.
Williams also encouraged residents to
pursue their noise complaints to the district
magistrate level.
—Emil Parvensky,
Undergraduate Student
Government president
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"The magistrate looks at a case much
more favorably especially if someone other
than the police officer is being bothered," he
said.
In the area of toning enforcement, Hess
said after hearing a citizen complaint, he
reviews the history of the property as well
as checking the property maintenance and
zoning hearing files.
When tenants are suspected of violating
the occupancy limit, the zoning office at
tempts to check the property. If tenants
refuse to let zoning officers in, Hess said the
department must show probable cause to
obtain a search warrant, which is difficult to
do.
Most of the time, rather than getting a
search warrant, Hess said the borough
would monitor the house for property main
tenance and noise violations in addition to
asking concerned neighbors to keep infor
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Fairbanks said that the borough has re
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the borough reported that the first . case was
a mistake, in the second the landlord volun
tarily agreed to reduce the number of ten
ants and in the third the 'landlord is being
ordered to reduce the number of tenants.
Organization for Town Independent Stu
dents President Peter, Cutrone questioned
the humanity of the borough's process.
"Where did the displaced tenants go and
how are they being handled? Are , they being
thrown out on the street?" he asked.
Hess said that renters have 30 days to find
a new place to live if they are in violation of
the occupancy limit.
To make sure that landlords aren't trying
to stuff more than three students in a house,
Quigley said that the code enforcement
office inspects . each rental unit after a
complaint is received, after a change in
ownership or after the owner asks for a
change in use for the property.
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