The developer who ripped down the millworker stone houses in Woodberry is seeking CHAP approval for another building on Clipper Road.

Why were properties purchased for more than $2.2 million allowed to deteriorate? Officials, who want to demolish them next month, were grilled at a Charles Village meeting.

They logged on or called in to the virtual meeting and waited patiently for the public testimony portion to start. But when they tried to say something, they couldn’t.