Town's Building Official Sees Negligence In Structure Collapse: NY Times Article

The town's chief building official is quoted in an article today saying the framework of the Maples Inn r due to "negligence."

Brian W. Platz is also reported telling the New York Times the developer converting the inn into condominiums went beyond conducting a "non-structural investigative demolition."

The Times says the developer, Andrew Glazer, denies doing anything unauthorized.

The building at 179 Oenoke Ridge had been stripped to its timbers in a  construction project to turn the former inn into  apartments. It collapsed on Nov. 17, in a high wind.  Four workers were at the site, but no one was injured. 

At a meeting the day before the collapse, the New Canaan Fire Commission about the building.

"We all had noticed that the structure had started to lean and we were concerned about the structural integrity of it and what to do in the event that a fire spread through it," Fire Commissioner Roger Williams told Patch at the time.

Earlier this month,  an investigator from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Robert Kowaslki, told Patch he expects to release a report on the incident soon.

The Times article in today's real estate section can be found here

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