Commission directs staff to study code change after residents raise $1.5M lien case
Several speakers described families facing large code-enforcement liens dating to prior owners; commissioners directed staff to study the proposed amendment to allow magistrates broader discretion to reduce or release liens and to return with a future agenda item.
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Residents appealed to the board to permit greater mitigation for property owners who acquired land with violations created by prior owners. Speakers from a family that spent five years and more than $100,000 bringing a 20-acre property into compliance described a continuing lien approaching $1.5 million. "Even after achieving compliance, he still faces nearly $1,500,000 in fines that remains unresolved because of limitations in the current code language," Roderick Malero told commissioners.
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