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Chelsea community group urges Atlantic City to use abandoned-properties tools, supports motel ordinance
Summary
A Chelsea-area community organizer told council there are more than 100 vacant or blighted properties in her neighborhood and urged use of the Abandoned Properties Act, vacant-property fee and foreclosure to address owners who do not maintain properties.
A presenter representing a Chelsea neighborhood planning effort urged the Atlantic City Council on Sept. 17 to use existing legal tools — including the Abandoned Properties Act, a vacant-property fee and foreclosure — to address an extensive inventory of vacant and blighted properties she said depress neighborhood values and impose municipal service costs.
"Taxpayers are paying the cost to maintain these properties as they demand additional services from police, code, public works, and fire," the presenter, Elizabeth Taranik, said…
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