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Neighbors urge cleanup after Riverside Avenue fire; city outlines blight task force and limits of enforcement
Summary
A letter from neighbors urged the city to demolish or secure fire-damaged structures at 502 Riverside Avenue; Fire Chief Ken Stowell outlined the city's blight workflow, costs, and plan to form a vacant-property task force and to partner with the county for remediation.
Neighbors asked the Ogdensburg City Council on Tuesday to force cleanup and demolition of an abandoned industrial parcel at 502 Riverside Avenue after a suspicious fire destroyed one building and injured a resident.
In a letter to council, neighborhood signatories said the two former oil-company buildings on the parcel had been abandoned for decades and reported repeated break-ins and squatting. The letter called for the city to “condemn and demolish” the easterly structure and to install curbing and topsoil on the parcel to prevent erosion. The correspondence cited the city code’s unsafe-building provisions and neighborhood-maintenance requirements.
Fire Chief Ken Stowell told council that vacant and blighted…
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