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Committee reviews municipal abatements chapter, asks for clearer definitions on legal terms and application steps
Summary
Members examined Englewood Municipal Code chapter on judicial abatement and vested-rights determinations, asking staff to add plain-language definitions for terms such as "reasonable nexus" and "equitable estoppel" and to clarify who may apply for a vested-rights determination and where to find application fees.
Committee members spent a lengthy portion of the meeting reviewing sections of the municipal code dealing with judicial abatement, nuisance enforcement and vested-rights determinations and asked staff for clarifications and plain-language definitions.
A committee member asked whether three notices of violation that trigger the judicial abatement process have a time limit; staff said courts generally will not consider notices older than two years and that the statutory lookback for some matters is one year. The member…
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