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City updates demolition and minimum-housing enforcement: 90-day process, dozens of cases, target to increase removals
Summary
Code staff briefed the Mayor and Board Commissioners on progress removing fire-damaged and dilapidated residential structures: 25 fire-structure reports in six months, 13 open dilapidation cases, and a 90-day minimum demolition process required by state statute; staff and the mayor said the city will aim to increase annual removals.
Scott, the city's demolition hearing officer and code official, gave the Mayor and Board Commissioners an update on the status of residential structures damaged by fire or deemed dilapidated and described the city's process for removing them.
Scott said the removal process is governed by state statute and requires a minimum 90-day timeline from start to finish: about 14 days of research before the initial notice, 20 days to a hearing, then bid solicitation and contracting (about 21 days for contractor selection and 30 days for the contractor to complete removal). "It is a 90 day process minimum,"…
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