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Resident urges LaSalle to enforce vacant-building ordinances for decades-empty Kaskaskia building
Summary
Breanne Hicks told the council the Kaskaskia building has been vacant for decades and asked why prior ordinance violations were dismissed and why the city is not pursuing legal remedies under its vacant-building and nuisance ordinances.
Breanne Hicks, a LaSalle resident, used public comment at the Jan. 20 City Council meeting to press the city to enforce existing ordinances for long-vacant properties, citing the Kaskaskia building as an example.
Hicks said the Kaskaskia closed in 2001 and that city records show CARES received four ordinance violations on Feb. 9, 2015, with two issued for the Maytag building and two for the Kaskaskia. "These violations included failure to repair or demolish a building and failure to register a vacant building, all of which were dismissed," she said.
She cited specific municipal code provisions in her…
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