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Resident asks Princeton to begin abandoned-property proceedings for 512 South Church under state statute
Summary
A resident asked the council to use state statute "5 eleven-thirty one-one" to declare 512 South Church abandoned and to pursue cleanup or municipal assumption of the property.
A resident urged the Princeton City Council to begin legal proceedings to declare the property at 512 South Church abandoned and to consider municipal cleanup or assumption under a state statute cited in the meeting.
The speaker said a notice had been sent to the property owner on July 10 and that the owner received it on July 11. According to the resident, the notice set a correction deadline of July 26; the resident said no corrective action had occurred and requested the city act under the cited statute to address the overgrowth and other conditions affecting the neighboring property.
The resident told the council the owner had not lived in the property for more than two years and that the conditions were negatively affecting the resident’s property. The resident said they had discussed the matter with the mayor, a commissioner and staff member Theresa, and requested the city take “the appropriate things, whatever that would be according to the state statute 5 eleven-thirty one-one, to assume that property and consider it an abandoned property.”
Council members acknowledged the comment; no formal motion or vote to begin enforcement proceedings appears in the excerpted transcript. The transcript records the request as part of the public comment period; staff follow-up or next steps were not recorded in the excerpt.
