Friday, January 08, 1999
Landlords charged after heat goes off
Mount Airy families forced to find shelter
BY MICHAEL D. CLARK
The Cincinnati Enquirer
City prosecutors filed charges Thursday against two Mount Airy landlords accused of not providing heat to apartment dwellers.
Terry Cosgrove, Cincinnati city prosecutor, said owners violated building codes in three apartment buildings in the Hawaiian Terrace complex.
Castlerock Properties Inc. owns two apartment buildings in the 5100 block of Hawaiian Terrace, and Transcontinental Companies Inc. owns one.
Mr. Cosgrove said the companies could face up to a $5,000 fine for each building if found guilty of code violations.
Scott Kadish, attorney representing Castlerock and Transcontinental, said the apartments had some heat and that the problem was not as big as the city contends.
“There was no criminal intent here,” he said.
Mr. Kadish said the owner has moved as quickly as possible by supplying space heaters and trying to repair furnaces. But he said the winter storms have slowed the work.
“You can only do things as quickly as you can get a worker to do them,” Mr. Kadish said.
He said the property owners hope to resolve the charges out of court and before appearing in Cincinnati Municipal Court within the next week.
This week, city council approved spending $2,000 to lodge families displaced by the heating problems. Residents estimate about 20 families were displaced.
Hawaiian Terrace resident Sheena Anderson is one of those staying at a Colerain Avenue motel, courtesy of city council. She said she has her own ideas of appropriate punishment for the landlords.
“I wish they could be sentenced to live in my building,” Ms. Anderson said.
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