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Hagerstown staff outline vacancy‑determination process and seek council authority to draft nuisance abatement ordinance
Summary
Neighborhood Services Manager Paul Folke described how the city identifies vacant structures, current exemptions, monitoring workload and proposed nuisance/abatement authority; council members asked for clearer thresholds and asked staff to return with options including contractor models for securing properties.
City staff on March 18 walked the mayor and city council through the municipal vacant‑property licensing program, explained how the city determines vacancy and asked the council to authorize legal work on a nuisance/vacant‑structure abatement ordinance.
Neighborhood Services Manager Paul Folke said the city maintains a vacancy‑licensing program that currently lists 313 vacant properties, including 19 vacant storefronts in the CCMU zone and 12 entire structures vacant in that district. He described how properties qualify for the program (vacant six months, in active…
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