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Casper officials outline recent dangerous‑building work, cite funding and staffing limits
Summary
Building and code officials described two enforcement tracks — an unsafe‑structures process adopted by the city in 2020 for certain rental properties and a dangerous‑buildings abatement process tied to the 1988 Uniform Code — and summarized demolitions, liens recovered and staffing and funding constraints.
City building and code enforcement officials summarized recent work targeting vacant, dilapidated and occupied problematic properties and described the resource intensity of posting, securing and abating dangerous buildings.
Justin Scott, Chief Building Official, said the city uses two separate tools: the city’s 2020 unsafe‑structures ordinance (used primarily for rental/landlord–tenant disputes and containing seven listed conditions) and a dangerous‑buildings process based on the 1988 edition of the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings (which lists 18 conditions permitting enforcement actions). Scott said the…
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