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Knoxville public officer orders repairs or demolition for multiple dangerous properties
Summary
Public Officer Nicholas Bradshaw found several Knoxville structures to be dangerous or unfit and ordered repair or demolition for addresses including three Massachusetts Avenue properties, 4917 Kane Road and others; some owners were given limited time to comply and multiple boarding charges were affirmed.
Nicholas Bradshaw, the public officer designated by the mayor, ordered owners of multiple Knoxville properties to repair or demolish unsafe structures after a January 31 hearing where city inspectors presented evidence of code violations.
Bradshaw said he found the structures at 1534, 1542 and 1544 Massachusetts Avenue “out of compliance with the codes of the City of Knoxville, an attractive nuisance and...dangerous and injurious to the health and safety of the occupants or public,” and ordered the owner to repair or demolish those structures immediately. Alan Stonerock, a neighborhood codes enforcement inspector, had recommended immediate repair/demolition for the accessory structures at those lots after inspections found heavy clutter, dilapidation and, in some lots, accessory structures on parcels without primary dwellings.
The order followed testimony from people identifying themselves as family members and others describing probate complications and recent dumping on the lots. One speaker, Ronnie…
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