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Board voices concerns over vacant-building ordinance enforcement, missing map and economic effects
Summary
Board members raised objections on July 29 to the city’s vacant-building ordinance, citing a missing geographic exhibit in the adopting ordinance, unclear fee language and a 60% occupancy threshold that speakers said would classify many downtown properties as vacant.
Board members used the July 29 meeting to detail concerns about the city’s vacant-building ordinance, its enforcement and the potential economic effects on downtown property owners.
Board members said the ordinance, originally adopted in 2021, refers to a boundary map (Exhibit A) that was not included in the ordinance as adopted and that the lack of a clearly defined geographic boundary could complicate enforcement. “When you go to when it was passed, it says see exhibit A or exhibit B. And when you go to the meeting when it was passed, there is no document exhibit A,” a board member said. Another board member said the city’s building-services web page now shows a map but that the map on the website differs from maps other staff described; the board asked the city to clarify the…
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