CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A Lakeview man is in a dispute with Peoples Gas over who should pay to have a nearly two-foot tall gas regulator — which currently stands in front of a door to his building — moved to a less prominent location.
Vince Anzalone admitted that the door wasn’t there when Peoples Gas installed a gas line and regulator on the sidewalk directly in front of his building in the 1400 block of West Barry Avenue in Lakeview.
There is one now, though, because Anzalone has been renovating the building so his wife can have a fitness business on the first floor while the family lives on the second floor.
Anzalone said he doesn’t want to have to pay the $8,000 Peoples Gas claimed it would cost to move the regulator somewhere else.
“I’m hoping that Peoples Gas can reach out to me and we can come to some sort of an agreement that is reasonable,” he said.
Anzalone added: “In the interim, I’m now losing money because I can’t continue my project on this house. I can’t move my family in. We’re living in temporary housing, so it’s slowing us up. It’s changing my life significantly.”
A Peoples Gas spokesman said Anzalone is responsible for any changes because the regulator was installed in front of a wall — before renovations that put a door there took place. Peoples even provided a Google Street Map view that shows the regulator in place and a door a few feet away.
Peoples Gas said if utility equipment needs to be moved because of a property owner’s construction, Illinois law requires the property owner to pick up the tab.
The company is currently working with the property owner, the spokesman said.
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