Connecticut General Statutes,Chapter 830, Sec. 47a-15. Noncompliance by tenant… Landlord's remedies….if there is a material noncompliance…which materially affects the health and safety of the other tenants or materially affects the physical condition of the premises…and the landlord chooses to evict based on such noncompliance, the landlord shall deliver a written notice to the tenant specifying the acts or omissions constituting the breach... For the purposes of this section, "serious nuisance" means (A) inflicting bodily harm upon another tenant or the landlord or threatening to inflict such harm with the present ability to effect the harm and under circumstances which would lead a reasonable person to believe that such threat will be carried out, (B) substantial and willful destruction of part of the dwelling unit or premises, (C) conduct which presents an immediate and serious danger to the safety of other tenants or the landlord, or (D) using the premises or allowing the premises to be used for prostitution or the illegal sale of drugs…that the tenant failed to require other persons on the premises with his consent to conduct themselves in a manner that will not constitute a serious nuisance…the burden shall be on the tenant to show that he had no knowledge of the creation of the serious nuisance.
Sec. 47a-32. (Formerly Sec. 52-540). Nuisance defined. In any action of summary process based upon nuisance, that term shall be taken to include, but shall not be limited to, any conduct which interferes substantially with the comfort or safety of other tenants or occupants of the same or adjacent buildings or structures. [Note: this last sentence provides the legal basis for adjacent residents to file a lawsuit against landlords who fail to take action against “nuisance tenants”.]

ZONING ORDINANCE
City of
NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT
Article IV
Section 29.
Parking.
(a) In any residence district, parking spaces shall be provided in the amount and location specified by the regulations of that district. Where parking requirements are expressed as a ratio to beds, employees, floor area, etc., any fraction of the stated amount of beds, employees, floor area, etc., shall require one parking space , but after the first such parking space , only a fraction of 1/2 or greater shall require an additional parking space .
(b) All parking spaces shall have an area of at least 180 square feet exclusive of adequate driveways and aisles, have direct access to a street or alley, be suitably surfaced and drained, and be provided with bumper or wheel guards where needed.

(c) No parking space shall be located within any required front yard , except that: parking spaces (whether enclosed or not) may be permitted to be located within a required front yard by special exception under subsection 63(d) of this ordinance upon a finding, among other things, that such parking spaces are necessary to the use with which they are connected, that they cannot be practically located elsewhere on the lot , that their location within a required front yard will not depreciate property values or cause vehicular or pedestrian traffic hazards or substantially decrease the open aspect of the street, and that such parking spaces are properly screened and otherwise arranged in accordance with the requirements of this ordinance.
A parking space may be located within a required side yard or rear yard, provided that no such parking space shall extend within two feet of any side of any side lot line or rear lot line; but a parking space within an accessory building shall follow the requirements of section 25 as to location within required side and rear yards.

(d) In the case of any use in a residence district for which three or more parking spaces are required, all parking spaces not within a building shall be provided with a suitable fence, wall or evergreen planting at least five feet in height, designed to screen noise, odors, visibility and headlight glare, and located between such parking spaces and any other lot in a residence district that abuts directly or across a street or alley.

(f) No sales or servicing or dead storage of automobiles or automotive equipment shall be carried on in any parking space .

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The description of this issue raises a number of red flags. I quote:

"I'm not saying they're undocumented"

"Transient Yale undergraduates"

Offensive statements aside, the mess has been cleaned up. The trailer is gone, the furniture is gone, the mud has washed off the sidewalk, the crisis is over. Dwight St is still standing.

Yes, these are definitely red flags and they need to be investigated, although I would think all Yale undergraduates are transient by definition. In the mean time the pile of wood and old mattress remains in 222 backyard and people continue to park on 222 south side front lawn which they access by 216 driveway (are these landlords in cahoots?). The north side driveway at 222 continues to be unpaved and muddies up the sidewalk every time someone uses the driveway. It's a mystery to me that the owner does not seem to care about his property. He drags down the value of his neighbor's properties but he also drags down the value of his own. I'm told Mamoun of Mamoun's restaurant on Howe street owns this property. It seems quite stupid for someone to deliberately drag down the value of his property but it's even more stupid to show such neighborhood disdain when running a business only a block away!!!.

one more picture south side lawn 222 Dwight

owner -
SULEIMAN CHATER
152R CREAMERY RD, DURHAM, CT, 06422

Parking on the yard - one of the hallmarks of white trash/ghettoness.

Slumlords in New Haven, don't care because they don't live here, they just suck the rent money out of town. College students are notoriously bad neighbors (usually loud and dirty) - no matter which school they go to. When they graduate and move to Rye Brook and Greenwich though it's a different story...