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Downtown advocates press council on vacant-building ordinance; council agrees to revisit options
Summary
A Downtown Pullman Association representative urged the council to adopt a vacant-building ordinance to address storefront blight. Council members discussed legal risk and enforcement options and directed Councilmember Fujairah to work with staff and two colleagues on draft options.
Bobby Bridal of the Downtown Pullman Association urged the City Council on Sept. 23 to adopt a vacant-building ordinance to address widespread storefront vacancies and exterior blight in the eight-block downtown core.
“There is a need, for tools to help Downtown Pullman rebuild. An empty building ordinance is 1 of those tools the DPA needs,” Bridal said during the non-agenda public comment period, citing more than a dozen vacant storefronts and deteriorating exteriors that, he said, deter investment.
Council members followed with a broad discussion during the regular agenda item. Councilmember…
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