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Council adopts registry-style rules for repeatedly cited properties, ups fines and lowers trigger to three properties
Summary
After hours of debate, Springfield’s City Council passed an ordinance creating a cited-property designation, escalating fines and requiring owners with multiple cited properties to register holdings; amendments lowered the trigger and raised penalties.
Springfield aldermen voted Aug. 19 to adopt an ordinance creating a cited-property designation for repeatedly cited properties and to impose escalating financial penalties and registration requirements for owners with multiple cited properties. Council members explained the measure as a tool to force owners who repeatedly let properties fall into disrepair to fix them or to be held financially accountable. Alderman Ralph Hanauer proposed and the council adopted changes that make the threshold for escalated fines lower and increase the fines: owners with three cited properties now face a not-less-than $5,000 fine and must register all…
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