San Antonio Adult Entertainment: East Side land mine
May 10, 2010Richardson was friends with the late artist Reverend Seymour Perkins, whose Eastside house and studio the City razed last December after a two-year legal battle. Officials accused Perkins, who died in February 2009 at the age of 79, of harboring drug dealers and prostitutes; Perkins maintained that he offered a safe haven for women, who, along with the neighborhoods deep and complicated history, provided inspiration for his work. Removing prostitution is a superficial issue, Richardson said. I told them, if you run them away from this location, they will be like shotgun pellets throughout the neighborhood.
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But along with the absentee landlords and unrepentant criminals, a significant number of impoverished homeowners get caught up in the DSDBs impassive machinery, most troublingly through the multi-agency Dangerous Assessment Response Team, which has institutionalized the use of police records to target structures with a record of heavy police calls or incidents. The DSDB can lower the boom on a structure for a variety of reasons, from foundation trouble …