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Atlanta solicitor outlines expansion of nuisance enforcement, liens and special properties team
Summary
City Solicitor Raines Carter told council the office has expanded a Safe and Secure Housing Initiative into a Special Properties Team, obtained civil penalties tied to multifamily enforcement and is pursuing injunctive relief, liquor-license revocations and other actions against repeat offenders.
City Solicitor Raines Carter told Atlanta City Council that the solicitor’s office has expanded its Safe and Secure Housing Initiative into a broader special properties team that pursues injunctive relief and enforcement actions against “bad actors” who operate nuisance or dangerous properties.
“With some of these multifamily dwellings and property owners, we’re now getting penalties up to… and we’ve brought in over $300,000 in civil penalties that were related specifically to the multifamily properties that we have been tackling,” Carter said, describing recent enforcement and the office’s use of civil penalties to balance remediation and compliance work.
Carter said the office has used temporary injunctive relief and liquor-license enforcement to close venues tied to repeated criminal activity and nuisance conditions, and that some operators “play games” and reappear under new names or fight closures in appellate courts. He told council the office currently has…
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