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336 NE 98 StMIAMI SHORES VILLAGE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD MEETING January 23, 1969 1. MINUTES. AGENDA 2. MISS ELSIE BAIOFF of 336 N. E. 98th St. , REQUESTS PERMIT TO ADD TOILET FACILITIES IN EXISTING NON - CONFORMING ACCESSORY BUILDING. Discussed at last meeting. 3. REQUEST BY WALTER A. FREDERICH, JR. TO CONSTRUCT A THREE BEDROOM TWO BATH RESIDENCE ON LOT 6, BLOCK 1, El Portal Sub. This is a 50 ft. lot between 440 and 464 N. E. 91st Street. 4. BISCAYNE KENNEL CLUB - REQUESTS PERMISSION TO ADD 80 ft. to east end of Grand Stand. 5. MEET WITH HARLAND BARTHOLOMEW & ASSOCIATES TO DISCUSS THE ZONING ORDINANCE. Miami Shores Police Department 10050 N.E. Second Avenue Miami Shores. Florida 33138 (305) 759 -2468 Michael A. Zoovas Chief of Police Ms. Elsie Baioff 336 N.E. 98 Street Miami Shores, FL 33138 Dear Ms. Baioff: March 8, 1990 I am in receipt of your letter dated March 2, 1990, and have reviewed same with my staff. As a result I must inform you that there is insufficient evidentiary grounds to pursue any charges against anyone, additionally, your complaints do not appear to be a Police matter. It is my suggestion that you contact the Dade County Citizens Dispute Settlement Program at 547 -7885 as I believe they are best suited to mediate your problems with your neighbors. MAZ /it Sincerely, Michael A. Zoovas Chief of Police xc: Gail Macdonald, Village Manager Francis Lubien, Building & Zoning Director POLICE H I E F _ .ZOOVA p �`IIAM SHORES, FLA, 33138 DEAR SIR: THE ATTACHED IS A.REPORT OF A SERIES OF INCIDENTS OF VANDALISM IN CONNECTION WITH MY PROPERTY. IT HAS CAUSED ME TO CONSTANTLY RELANDSCAPE AND REPLACE EXPENSIVE PLANTS AND TREES. I HAVE SPENT MANY YEARS - AND. TIME- TO DEVELOP -AN- -ORGAN I E GARDEN AND THIS-IS VERY DESTRUCTIVE, AND ENDANGERING NO ONLY .MY HEALTH -, YOUR HEALTH, AND EVERYONE IN DADE COUNTY USING OUR DRINKING WATER. YOUR ACTION TAKEN TO ALLEVIATE THIS-SITUATION-WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED BY ME AND EVERYONE DRINKING THE WATER. CC: MR. .FRANK LUBIEN - DIR. CODE & ENFORCEMENT 336 NE 98 STRE T MIAMI SHORES �LA. 33138 MARCH 2, 199 YO_ RS TRULY, LSIE R OF TEL. 754 -L3336 PAGE !1 THE FOLLOWING IS A REPORT OF VANDALISM ON 336 NE 98 STREET, I HAVE HAD VANDALISM FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS OR MORE, AT FIRST 3 BIG BEAUTIFUL PALMS ON CITY SIDE AND A SMALL POINCIANA TREE WERE DESTROYED, IR, DR, CHAILLE MOVED IN NEXT DOOR, A BIG BEAUTIFUL PALM ON �1TY SIDE WAS DESTROYED AND A BIG ENORMOUS PALM COCONUT WAS DESTROYED FT FROPA FRONT ON THE EAST SIDE OF MY PROPERTY, IN THE NE CORNER I HAD PLANTED 3 SETS OF PALM IN THREE YEARS AS EVERY ONE HAD BEEN BURNED,, THE STENCH OF GASOLINE, OIL, KEROSENE, CHEMICAL WAS SO STRONG THAT PASSERS BY CAME IN TO CHECK AND SMELL AND CONFIRMED THE FACT - ONE COUPLE LIVES ON 104 ST AND THE LAZE, FLOWERS WOULD NOT GROW WHERE ONCE THEY HAD BEEN SO BEAUTIFUL WHEN �'R, QEEDER WAS LIVING. I HAD SEEN PAR, SPRINGFELS OF 347 NE 98 ST, DIRECTLY ACROSS TIRE STREET, RUN OUT OF MY YARD AND DISAPPEAR IN HIS AS I APPROACHED MY YARD WHEN I HAD BEEN AWAY FOR A PERIOD OF TIME, f HAD SE N HIM MANY TIMES OVER THE YEARS, WHICH MADE ME FEEL THAT THE MINUTE I LEFT, HE WAS IN MY YARD. ON JULY 4/89M AS �D 'I R BT D=I- I-I.RM SAW NR, T1 PR.I NGFELS LURKING pk A Y 1 MY PARKED CAR ON THE AST CITY SIDE, IN THAT t ORNER Op MY PROPERTY 4AD 6 PALMS, NOW ONLY - AND CONSTANTLY THE THE LEAVES A E BEING BURNED AND DAMAGED , AND ON INSPECTED OIL HAD BEEN SPILLED ON THE TREES, THIS COULD BE DONE FROM THE POSITION I HAD SEEN 4IIM STANDING BEHIND MY CAR, ON JULY 15/89 @ 7:30 PM 1 RAN OUT TO WATER THE LAWN AND TO MY DISMAY THERE WERE LARGE BROWN AREAS ON THE LA!^!N RIGHT BY THE HOUSE - T JUST COULDN'T BELIgVE MY OWN EYES WHAT I SAW - I STARTED WATERING AND I LOOKED UP AND SAW MR, AND P'IRS, SPRINGFELS CLUTCHING ONE ANOTHER AND CROUCHING UNDER : COWANS TREE DIRECTLY ACRnSS FROM ME -- WHY 9 9 99999 ?' (7OULD IT BE T NEARLY CAUGHT THEM VANDALIZING AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GET TO THEIR OWN PROPERTY A FEW FEET AWAY? S I KEPT WATERING = IT WAS OIL AND FINALLY AFTER HOURS OF WATERING WAS ABLE TO WASH IT DOWN, 2 MONTHS AGO I FOUND THE SAME SITUATION WHEN I RETURNED HOME AFTER BEING AWAY SEVERAL HOURS. DURING THE MONTHS OF FEBRUARY r 7ARCH, APRIL AND "AY - IR. SPRINGFELS WAS SEEN MANY MORNINGS ABOUT 6:00 AM LURKING IN MY CAR PARKING AREA IN FRONT WHY? - OR HE JUST BARELY GOT QUT OF MY YARD AND ONLY TO THE PARKING LOT -- OR TO DO DAMAGE TO CARS, WHEN 1 GOT MY PRESNET CAR, SHORTLY AFEER T WOULD SEE ALL THESE SCRATCHES ON THE CAR IN VARIOUS PLACES, AND NOW I FEEL T KNOW WHO WAS DOING TT, I AM AFRAID TO GET A NEWER CAR FOR FEAR IT WILL BE ALL SCRATCHED UP LIKE THIS ONE DID, ODORS OF GA AND /OR KEROSENE WERE STRONG UNDER MY LEMON TREE AND AVOCODO TREE MANY TIMES, AND DAMAGE IS APPARENT, FOUN OIL ON ALOE, PINEAPPLE PLANTS, BANANAS, AND IT IS STILL ON THE GROUND, KILLING ALL MY GRASS IN THE BACK YARD ,ORCHIDS AND STAGHORNS WERE DAMAGED. PAGE 2 I WORKED HARD FOR MANY -YEARS I MPROV MY PROPERTY AND THE CITY PROPERTY IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE, I WEEDED AND TRANSPLANTED -A CERTAIN GOOD GRASS AND IT STARTED TO LOOK LOVELY I SAO MANY BLACK SPOTS IN MANY AREAS AND AS IBENT DOWN TO WEED, FOUND THE SMELL OF GASOLINE WAS SO STRONG I COULDN'T -DO IT — THAT IS WHY - -THE BLACK SPOTS - NOTHING GROWS IN GASOLINE. WHILE I AM TRYING TO REJUVENATE THE BLACK SPOTS MORE pf o SOMETHING HAS BEEN SPILLED IN OANY LARGE AREAS ON THE NICE LAWNN IT LOOKED DEAD AND BURNED. IHIS IS THE SEBDND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED IN A MONTH, THE SAME SITUATION IS APPEARING ON THE FRONT LAWN y - - 2 WEEKS AGO ON SATURDAY AT 1;00 PM I OPENED MY FRONT DOOR TO WATER MY PLANTS AND THERE WAS MR. SPRINGFELS BARRELLING TOWARD MY HOUSE. Ps HE WAS SEVERAL FEET FROM THE SIDEWALK HE SUDDENLY LOOKED IA AND SAW ME STANDING WATCHING HIM. HE WAS VER STARTLED AND STARTED DOING THE CIRC;E TWO -STEP, HW AWAYED TP TJE WEST. 3 WNW NEIGHBOR WAS NOT HOMsd, THEN HE SWAYED TO THE EAST AND DR. CHAILLE WAS NOT HOME, AND CONTINUED TO SATCHEZ AND DO THE TWO — STEP — (I WISHED I HAD A CAMERA TO CAPTURE THIS PICTURE) — I JUST STOOD THERE WATCHING HIM SATCHEL AND DOING THE TWO STEP. FINALLY HE TURNED AROUND AND WENT BACK HOME. Now I SAY HE WAS DEFINITELY HEADED FOR MY YARD TO PROBABLY TEAR OUT MORE NEW PALM LEAVES AND /OR BREAK THEM AND LEAVE THEM DANGLING THESE ARE ALL THERE AND VISIBLE FOR VERIFICATION . SOME TREES ARE VU.42 FEET TALL AND HE CLIMBS THEM AND BREAKS THAT NEW LEAF, IF HE WAS. MOT HEADED FOR MY PLACE, CERTAINLY MY PRESENCE SHOULD NOT B E ANY OBSTANIIE IN HIM REACHING HIS DESTINATION — UNLESS IT WAS TO MY YRARD. AND SINCE HE HEADED BACK HOME, IT IS OBVIOUS HE WAS HEADED FOR MY YARD, 3 YEARS AGO AT MIAMI SHRS, PRES, CHURCH, XMAS EVE SERVICE, AS A FEW FRIENDS AND MYSELF WERE EXCHANGING PLEASANTRIES, AND AN INVITATION VAS EXTENDED TO ALL OF US 1FOR REFRESHMENTS, AND AT WHICH TIME MR, AND MRS. SPRINGFELS PASSED US BY AND I AM SURE THEY OVERHEARD THE INVITATION, 8S IT WAS NO SECRET. WHEN I ARRIVED HOME THAT NIGHT MY BIG BEAUTIFUL XMAS WREATH WAS TORN OFF THE DOOR AND BROKEN UP ON THE FLOOR. THE YEAR BEFORE THAT ALSO DURING THE HOLIDAY SEASON, I HAD AN ESPECIALLY NICE GERANIUM PLANT JUST SMOTHERED WITH BLOSSOMS, AND ONE MORNING I OPENED -THE DOOR TO FIND THAT PLANT PULLED OUT AND STREWN ALL OVER THE STEPS. NOW I ASK YOU - ARE THESE ACTS OF JEALOUSY? -- PSYCHOSIS ? ? ?? JEALOUSY IS A MENTAL DISORDER -- A DEFINITE SICKNESS. COULD BE DANGEROUS OR IS. ABOUT 5 YEARS AGO A COUPLE BOUGHT A HOUSE EAST OF SIR. COWAN -FROM KANSAS, A VERY NICE COUPLE, STAYED 2 YEARS AND SOLD IT. THEY GOT VERY FRIENDLY WITH THE SPRINGFELS AND WENT HERE AND THERE TOGETHER. JUST BEFORE THEY WENT BACK TO KANSAS, SHE CALLED ME AND TOLD ME CONFIDENTIALLY THAT MS, SPRINGELS WAS SPREADING VERY DAMAGENG REMARKS ABOUT ME AND TO BE VERY CAREFUL AS SHE IS VICIOUS. Now YOU ASK WHAT WAS YOUR ASSOCIATION WITH THE SPRINGFELS LIKE ALL THESE YEARS P PAGE 3 dTHEY. MOVED IN THE EARLY '7O' FRIEN LY - -THE.Y.GAVE -ME ORANGES, . GAVE.. TH EM. LEMONS AND MANGOES, .: � HE.Y HAD L. -VE.RY...NICE DAUGHTERS, AND THE . YOUNGEST. VI CKI . WAS ESPECIALLY _ A VERY SWEET GIRL. -I-LIKED HER VERY MUCH.- WE- EXCHANGED REMARKS OUTSIDE, AND- ONCE - I. -HAD INVITED THEM - TO AN OPEN HOUSE, XMAS. I HAD NEVER BEEN INVITED TO THEIR PLACE. IN 1975 -76 I WAS VERY ILL AND HAD -ASKED THEM TWICE TO -BRING ME SOME FOOD-WHEN-THEY. WENT SHOPPING TO THE•GROCERY- STORg..-- VICKI BROUGHT -ME • IHE THINGS,• AND FOR WHICH 1 WAS -VERY GRATEFUL. HEN LATER I HAD ASKED LARL TO GIVE ME A HOT SPARK - MY BATTERY WAS- RUNNING LOW..B ECAUSE•I WAS NOT USING ITT TO GO TO THE GROCERY STORE. AGAIN I WAS. VERY. THANKFUL AND GRATEFUL FOR THAT. AFTER THAT A FRIEND OF MINE BOUGHT A NEW BATTERY FOR ME AND I WAS ON MY OWN. UPS WAS ALWAYS LEAVING PACKAGES FOR .THEM WITH ME .FROM SHAKLEE PRODUCTS, AS THEY.WEHE RUNNING A HEALTH FOOD STORE. THEN THEY PICKED UP THE PACKAGES WHEN THEY GOT HOME FROM WORK. THAT WAS THE EXTENT OF OUR FRIENDSHIP. LATTER PART OF .976 AS MY HEALTH .WAS A LITTLE BETTER AND I WENT OUTSIDE AND SAT ON THE LAWN AND WEEDEDIT. EVERY TIME -I um INTO -THE HOUSE THE PHONE WOULD RING AND THIS DISGUISED VOICE WOULD SAY ".I AM- WATCHING YOU EVERY DAY FROM ACROSS THE STREET - YOU ARE 'WEARING GREEN OR. WHATEVER COLOR SHORTS AND BLOUSE, ETC.ETC. IF I WENT OUT FOR A WHILE AND CAME HOME, THE MINUTE I PUT THE KEY - -IN THE DOOR, THE PHONE WAS RINGING. • THE VOICE, WHERE WERE YOU, ETC, ETC. THIS WENT ON FOR WEEKS - WITHOUT A LET - UP, TILL IT GOT TO BE UNNERVING AND STARTcD TO AFFECT MY HEALTH ADVERSELY AND I CERTAINLY DIDN'T NEED THAT. 1 REPORTED THIS TO THE POLICE AND ASKED WHAT TO DO. THEY TOLD- ME TO-ACCEPT THE DATE TO MEET WITH HIM THE NEXT TIME-AND TOLD ME WHERE TO--MEET, -PARKING LOT OF A CHURCH ON 2ND-AVE.. POLICE WERE WITHIN ARM'S LENGTH OF THE. CAR. WE WAITED FOR A HALF AN HOUR, RAND HE DID NOT SHOW UP, SO I WENT HOME AND POLICE WATCHED MY HOUSE THAT NIGHT. 1HE MINUTE I PUT THE KEY IN THE DOOR, THE PHONE RANG AND IT WAS THE VOICE - I- QUICKLY SAID -WHERE WERE YOU, YOU STOOD ME UP, AND HE SAID - YOU SIKKED THE POLICE ON ME AND HUNG UP AND NEVER CALLED AGAIN. SOON AFTER THIS, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VANDALISM STARTED -THE- PALM - -- TREES ON THE CITY PROPERTY STARED DYING ONE B Y.ONE. - - AND -I -AM SURE THAT IF I DIDN'T HAVE SUCH A WONDERFUL NEIGHBORLY RELATIONSHIP WITH MR. J. P. REEDER, I PROBAB LY WOULD HAVE HAD MORE VANDALISM, I JUST THINK THAT THEY WERE AFRAID OF HIM, BEING AN ATTORNEY. THEN MR. LUBIEN ONE DAY SAID I AM GETTING SO-MANY-COMPLAINTS ABOUT YOU. I ROM THE NEIGHBORS -- I DEMANDED WHAT COMPLAINTS AND.WHAT.NEIGHBORS AS. KNOW I DID NOTHING WRONG - WELL APPARENTLY MR, SPRINGFELS..WAS$ CALLING TO THE CITY HALL COMPLAIIFI'ING THAT MY CAR WAS. PARKED IN FRONT -OF THEIR PLACE -- TES THAT HAPPENED MAYBE TWICE AND -ONLY FOR THE DURATION OF TIME THAT THE CREW WAS TRIMMING A BIG FICUS•TREE IN-FRONT. OF MY PLACE. ANY WAY, IT IS CITY PROPERTY - AND- THEY.WSRE AT WORK AND - THE -SPOT WAS EMPIEY. I STILL DID NOTHING WRONG,- -I- REALIZED -THEN THAT-THESE PEOPLE CLAW YOU BEHIND YOUR BACK FOR NO REASON AT ALL. WE HAVE NOT SPOKEN TO ONE ANOTHER AT ANY TIMEr SINCE THE VOICE QUITE CALLING -AND I AM SURE IT WAS- THE MR..SPRINGFELS , AND I FEEL CERTAIN NOW THAT THAT WAS A PLAN TO SOMEHOW IMPLICATE ME eM SP,E AMU= WAY AND WHEN IT BACKFIRED, NOW THE REVENGE. u"" • PAGE 4 THE NEIGHBOR - 320 NE 98 STREET - WEST OF ME. FROM DAY ONE HE MOVED IN -MR-. SPRINGFELS GOT VERY CHUMMY -WITH HIM THE NEIGHBOR 320. HAS. NEVER EDGED HIS-LAWN WEST-SIRE-SO HIS-GRASS IS GROWING OVER MY SIDEWALK AND MY PROPERTY- IN OTHER WORDS-... - TRESPASSING MY PROPERTY - -- THAT GOES FOR ALL HIS. TREES, HEDGES,- EVERYTHING. 1 TRIMMED AND EDGED FOR S..YEARS AND SAID ENOUGH -I -S ENOUGH., THERE IS A PRICE FOR YARD MAINTENANCE. SO 1 BUILT A ROCK -WALL IN SELF DEFENCE TO PREVENT IT FROM GOING INTO. MY LAWN. .1 D0- -NOT -HAVE THE USE OF MY SIDEWALK AND WALKWAY INTO MY SIDE OF THE HOUSE,-BECAUSE-HE DOES NOT DO HES MAINTENANCE. 1 FEEL -THAT HE IS NOT DOING HIS MAINTENANCE ON THE ADVICE OF MR. SPRINGFELS. ALSO MY PALMS BY THE SIDEWALK ARE -BEING VANDALIZED. AND HE IS- UPSET THAT 1. DO NOT DO HIS YARD MAINTENANCE SO HESIS VANDALIZING MY -YARD FROM THE ALLEY AND POURING OIL, GASOLINE AND CHEMICALS INTO.MY PLANTS AND TRYING -TO DESTROY EVERYTHING. THE OIL IS STILOON THE GROUND, VERY VISIBLE. 1 AM SURE HE HAS COME INTO MY YARD THROUGH THE FRONT AT NIGHT AS...I WAS AWAKENED SEVERAL TIMES WITH CIGARETTE SMOKE COMING -INTO MY BEDROOM WINDOW, AND THAT HAS TO BE CLOSE - BY THE TIME I RAN OUT AND UNLOCKED DOORS, I AM=SiURE HE WAS GONE OR PERHAPS HIDING BEHIND SOME SHRUB. ALSO WHENEVER HE -MOWS HIS LAWWN, HE SWEEPS ALL THE GRASS CUTTINGS • ON THE SIDEWALK. IN FRONT OF MY PROPERTY AND LEAVES THEM THERE FOR ME TO PICK THEM UP. I HAD APPROACHED HIM ON THESE ITEMS, AND HE MUST TURNS HIS BACKSIDE AND LAUGHS, AND WALKS AWAY. I KEEP MY YARD CLAN, NO NEIGHBOR GETS A LEA�'OR A WEED FROM MY -YARD, ALL MY TREES ARE 0 FEET INSIDE THE PROPERTY LINE AND THAT SHOULD BE THE RULING FOR ALL RESIDENTS. I HAD BEEN TREATED VERY WELL BY TI-1q HEFFNERS W () OWNED THAT PROPERTY F BEFORE AND THEY HAD THE TREES ? D DOWN TO FT -EVERY 6 MONTHS - AND WEEKLY ALL SHRUBBE3Y WAS NICE TRIMMED AND EDGED AND 1 NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH THEM, IHEY WERE SO ESPECIALLY NICE TO ME AND I • CERTAINLY MISS THEM. WE HAD A WONDERFUL NEIGHBORLY RELATIONSHIP FOR 4.6 YEARS. THERE IS NO REASON WHY I SHOULD BE SUFFERING FROM SUCH VANDALISM- OF YEARS OF WORK, MONEY, ETC. - WHY BECAUSE OF MIRISO IN 0 R LAWS? IF ONLY MR. IRWIN, BACK DOOR NEIGHBOR COULD TALK NOW- DECEASED 6.MOS, HE TOLD ME SO MANY TIMES HOW HE- DESPISED MRS, SPRINGFELS..- HE HAD -NO USE FOR HER AND I BELIEVE HE EVEN ASKED HER NOT TO COME TO HIS ORCHID MEETINGS. MR. IRWIN WAS A FINE MAN AND WE HAD A VERY GOOD NEIGHBORLY RELATIONSHIP, I HAVE BEEN A GOOD CITIZEN, HAVE DONE NOTHING ILLEGAL,. OR DAMAGING -TO ANYONE. I KEEP MY YARD CLEAN AND CERTAINLY DO NOT-DESERVE-SUCH-UGLY. TREATMENT WHILE TRYING TO KEEP MY PROPERTY IN CONFORMITY TO MIAMI SHORES STANDARDS. I NEED YOUR HELP. X SIE BAIOFF 36 NE 98 STREET.