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City manager urges legislature to clear long-held foreclosed properties off municipal rolls
Summary
City Manager Penny Thompson said she submitted testimony supporting LD 745, a pending Maine bill that would ease municipal processes for disposing of long-held foreclosed properties, and told council such a change could let the city liquidate blighted properties — though proceeds may have to be returned to former owners.
City Manager Penny Thompson told the council March 10 that she submitted testimony in support of proposed state legislation, LD 745, which is intended to let municipalities move long-held foreclosed properties back into private ownership and back onto the tax rolls.
Thompson said the city…
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