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Residents urge action on abandoned school, burned houses and rising equipment thefts
Summary
Multiple residents told the council that the vacant Pippard Elementary site and a long-empty burned house are attracting criminal activity and blight; speakers reported stolen air conditioners, break-ins and unsecured construction staging areas and urged the city and contractors to secure properties and speed hazard remediation.
Several residents used public comment to press the Harper Woods City Council for faster action on abandoned and unsecured properties and to ask for increased enforcement after a spate of equipment thefts and break-ins.
Why it matters: Residents described unsecured construction sites and a long-standing burned house near schools as public-safety and neighborhood-blight issues that attract theft and illegal entry and lower nearby property values.
Eileen Ross, who lives across from Pippard Elementary, described broken fencing, dark interior windows and thefts from the site: “It’s deplorable,” Ross said, and recounted at least two stolen air-conditioner units and repeated…
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