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Rules on rowdy behavior spark tension at new student complex
by Outspoken on Mon Nov 10, 2008 5:27 am
Rules on rowdy behavior spark tension at new student complex
Building managers walk a fine line between police and residents who object to the oversight.
By ELBERT AULL
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
Brady Patterson of Portland said he was alarmed by the note he found under his door recently. The rules at his apartment complex had changed.
He was to have no more than eight people in his four-bedroom suite at a time, half the prior limit of 16. Visitors would have to sign in at the front desk, and he would be allowed only one guest at a time without permission from his landlords.
''I was like, 'I'm moving out,''' said Patterson, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Southern Maine. ''This isn't a dorm.''
Patterson lives at Bayside Village, a privately owned apartment complex for college students that opened on Marginal Way in August and has been on law enforcement's radar screen ever since.
Portland police are pressuring Bayside Village's owner, Realty Resources, to curb unruly behavior at the property after receiving nearly 60 calls for service there since September. The resulting changes – evictions, a management shake-up and a new set of rules – have incensed some of the building's 300 residents and have managers walking a tightrope between the police and unhappy tenants.
''The residents need to realize that having the police called to their apartment is not going to be accepted,'' said General Manager Benjamin Westman.
Police were called to Bayside Village 17 times in September. In October, police were called 41 times, said police Capt. Ted Ross.
That was the second-highest number of calls for service at any address in the city last month, Ross said, after the Preble Street Resource Center for homeless people (62 calls) and just ahead of the Oxford Street Homeless Shelter (38 calls), both in Bayside.
Ross said most complaints at Bayside Village were for varying degrees of disorderly conduct: loud parties, minors drinking, or drunkenness in hallways and other shared spaces.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=221304&ac=PHnws
Photos By Jack Milton/Staff Photographer
Building managers walk a fine line between police and residents who object to the oversight.
By ELBERT AULL
Staff Writer Portland Press Herald
Brady Patterson of Portland said he was alarmed by the note he found under his door recently. The rules at his apartment complex had changed.
He was to have no more than eight people in his four-bedroom suite at a time, half the prior limit of 16. Visitors would have to sign in at the front desk, and he would be allowed only one guest at a time without permission from his landlords.
''I was like, 'I'm moving out,''' said Patterson, a 20-year-old junior at the University of Southern Maine. ''This isn't a dorm.''
Patterson lives at Bayside Village, a privately owned apartment complex for college students that opened on Marginal Way in August and has been on law enforcement's radar screen ever since.
Portland police are pressuring Bayside Village's owner, Realty Resources, to curb unruly behavior at the property after receiving nearly 60 calls for service there since September. The resulting changes – evictions, a management shake-up and a new set of rules – have incensed some of the building's 300 residents and have managers walking a tightrope between the police and unhappy tenants.
''The residents need to realize that having the police called to their apartment is not going to be accepted,'' said General Manager Benjamin Westman.
Police were called to Bayside Village 17 times in September. In October, police were called 41 times, said police Capt. Ted Ross.
That was the second-highest number of calls for service at any address in the city last month, Ross said, after the Preble Street Resource Center for homeless people (62 calls) and just ahead of the Oxford Street Homeless Shelter (38 calls), both in Bayside.
Ross said most complaints at Bayside Village were for varying degrees of disorderly conduct: loud parties, minors drinking, or drunkenness in hallways and other shared spaces.
http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=221304&ac=PHnws
Photos By Jack Milton/Staff Photographer
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