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City swoops in on Latina's for a day of enforced clean up

By Howard B. Owens

If you noticed the bright red trucks of Scalia's Landscaping around Latina's today, don't get your hopes up that purported property owner Tom Lewin of Buffalo has suddenly taken responsibility for the rotting hulk of a former supermarket.

Scalia's was hired by the city after LKLWL Properties allegedly failed to comply with a code violation posted on the building on June 24.

LKLWL Properties will be billed for the clean up -- which included weed abatement and hosing down the sidewalks, which were covered with gull poop, along with a $250 fine.

The city took the same enforcement action against LKLWL Properties last year. The city is also working on a court case alledging that the hundreds of gulls nesting on the roof of the former Latina's Food Store are creating an "unsanitary condition."

Neither court nor city officials were able to say today when that case might be heard in Batavia City Court.

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Mary E DelPlato

Hey if we get more seagulls to hang out at all the empty buildings round here...will our property taxes go down with all the revunues from gullpoop fines?

Jul 1, 2010, 5:56pm Permalink
Tim Howe

We might be missing the big picture here. We could be sitting on a multi million dollar a year gold mine in Batavia... White Gold!!!! Guano people...GUANO!!!!

Jul 2, 2010, 2:28pm Permalink

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