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City explains fast‑track demolition process after contested teardown at 404 E. Shawnee
Summary
City staff outlined the statute, notices and court history that led to the fast‑track demolition of 404 East Shawnee; the property owner and residents raised concerns about notice, removed personal property and consistency of enforcement across town. Council postponed further discussion to a later date.
The city’s building‑code director delivered a detailed account Monday of the statutory fast‑track demolition process and the documented timeline for 404 East Shawnee, a vacant, fire‑damaged property that the city had demolished under the fast‑track statute after judicial review.
Director Wayne Duckman said state law allows a municipality to post a notice on a building declared an immediate, continuing hazard and to proceed to demolition if required administrative notices (certified mail, newspaper publication and recordation) are delivered and an owner does not successfully enjoin the action. Duckman and staff displayed time‑stamped photographs, permit history…
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