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Opa-locka commission approves lien amnesty program with 36-month sale restriction and manager discretion on deeper discounts
Summary
The City Commission approved a reestablished code enforcement lien amnesty program allowing eligible property owners to reduce outstanding liens; the commission increased the maximum standard discount for some cases from 75% to 85% and required applicants consenting to the program to accept a filed lien prohibiting sale for 36 months.
The City Commission of the City of Opa-locka on Wednesday approved a resolution reestablishing a code enforcement lien amnesty program that limits the sale of participating properties for 36 months and gives the city manager discretion to approve deeper discounts in special cases.
The measure, sponsored by the city manager and deferred from the Sept. 10 meeting, passed unanimously after a pair of amendments. Commissioners voted 3–2 to raise the standard maximum discount discussed earlier from 75% to up to 85% for select cases; the commission then approved, 5–0, an amendment requiring applicants to acknowledge and consent to a lien and a prohibition on the sale of the property for 36 months as a condition of participation.
Supporters called the program a tool to reduce long-standing derelict-property burdens on neighborhoods and to help low-income homeowners. "We're not here also, you know, to sacrifice or make people . . . lose the houses or make people lose everything that they have for their whole life,"…
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