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Senate approves Baton Rouge bill to speed removal of dangerous, blighted buildings; creates administrative process
Summary
The Senate passed a local bill from Senator Edmonds to allow Baton Rouge to route blight cases to a municipal administrative court and to streamline remediation while retaining due-process steps; the measure passed on a roll call.
The Louisiana Senate on the floor approved Senate Bill 236 by Senator Rick Edmonds, a local measure that the sponsor said is aimed at accelerating the remediation of dangerous and blighted properties in Baton Rouge. Edmonds told the chamber the measure grew out of a transition-team study for the new mayor and that the city has pursued models used in New Orleans.
Edmonds told senators the statute addressed “blight” comprehensively: since February 2016, he said, the parish has…
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