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Morgantown to streamline vacant‑structure exemption process; staff report to become default decision absent hearing request
Summary
Councilors heard an update to the vacant‑structure code and attendant exemption procedures intended to speed administrative decisions: staff reports would become the decision unless the property owner or a council member requests a hearing within a set timeframe.
Attorney Simonton and staff presented proposed revisions to the city’s vacant‑structure code and the council’s exemption procedures on Sept. 30. The changes are intended to streamline a process that council and owners have criticized as time‑consuming and costly.
Simonton said West Virginia statutory authority for the vacant‑structure program (noted in…
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