They had just started framing the third floor of the house next door at the end of last week. They seemed to have mostly finished today. Yup, it’s a third story all right.

They do seem to have pushed back just a tad from the façade on the front. That was about all we could hope for, I suppose. Still, it’s a travesty, what they’re doing. There was an Associated Press story about such things the other day, and you can find it, “Communities Fight ‘Tear-Down Phenomenon’,” on one of the many sites that carry the AP.