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Columbus council keeps multiple derelict properties on demolition list, requires owner letter of intent for one site
Summary
The Columbus City Council reviewed a package of demolition cases and kept seven properties on the formal demolition list, approved a procedural requirement for one owner and removed one property from the list after a transfer of ownership.
The Columbus City Council on Sept. 16 reviewed a multi-property demolition ordinance and heard owners and heirs on several sites the city says are blighted or unsafe.
Council members heard from property owners and heirs on at least four parcels and voted to require a written letter of intent from the owner of 3407 Victory Drive before the council’s second-reading vote next week. Council also removed one property from the current list after staff learned it had been sold.
The action followed a staff presentation that identified eight properties for the demolition ordinance. At the hearing, Ricky Johnson, who identified himself as owner of the Victory Drive property, said a prior fire had left the building unsafe and that he had bank funding that would allow demolition in early January. Johnson asked the council for time to…
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