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Monroe City Council adopts multiple demolition orders, denies Steele Street rezoning and approves paid-parking reconsideration
Summary
At its July 8 regular meeting Monroe City Council voted to declare several vacant homes unfit for human habitation and ordered demolition or repair, denied a rezoning request for 1913 Steele Street, and directed staff to reconsider a downtown paid-parking pilot with revised fees and hours.
Monroe City Council took a series of formal actions at its July 8 meeting, adopting minimum-housing ordinances to declare multiple vacant houses dilapidated and unfit for human habitation, voting to deny a rezoning request for 1913 Steele Street, and directing staff to revisit a paid parking pilot for a downtown lot.
Council adopted ordinances ordering demolition or repair for properties at 601 South College Street; 3613 U.S. Highway 74; and 3701–3705 U.S. Highway 74 following code-enforcement inspections that found structural failures, missing utilities and debris in each dwelling. Planning and code-enforcement staff told council repair estimates for the properties exceed 50…
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