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Council presses for stronger enforcement on chronically unsightly properties
Summary
During a general improvements meeting, councilors urged more aggressive use of existing property-maintenance ordinances to address repeatedly neglected lots and inoperable vehicles; staff said the city has enforceable code but some repeat offenders remain difficult to compel to clean up.
At a Struthers City Council general improvements meeting, councilors and staff discussed a string of long-running property-maintenance problems and asked administration to take stronger enforcement measures against repeat offenders.
Council member (and meeting chair) Vincent Caricelli called attention to several properties that residents and other councilors have repeatedly reported. Council members showed photographs and said some addresses have been the subject of previous compliance efforts that produced temporary…
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