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Community group urges aggressive use of abandoned-properties law; expresses support for motel ordinance
Summary
A Chelsea community group told the council that absentee owners and vacant properties impose costs on taxpayers and asked the city to enforce the Abandoned Properties Act, vacant-property fees and foreclosure options. The speaker also voiced support for a motel ordinance on the council agenda.
Elizabeth Taranick, representing the Chelsea neighborhood community development corporation, urged the Atlantic City Council to use existing laws and fees to address vacant and blighted properties that she said burden taxpayers and neighborhoods. Taranick told the council Chelsea has about 103 vacant properties and cited examples of owners who hold multiple properties, including one limited-liability company she said owns 31 vacant parcels. “Taxpayers are paying the cost to maintain these properties,” she said, listing extra demands on police, code enforcement,…
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