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Southaven approves property-cleaning resolutions after owner pleads for time to rebuild

5432334 · July 21, 2025
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Summary

The board approved resolutions to convert liens for properties cut by the city into assessments after public comment from an owner whose house burned; code enforcement and the owner agreed on conditions for removal from the list if maintenance continues.

The Southaven Board of Aldermen approved a resolution to convert liens for properties cut by the city into assessments on next year’s tax bill and adopted a resolution granting authority to clean private property under the city’s maintenance code. One property owner, Jesse Byers, addressed the board during the meeting to ask for leniency after his home burned in March and he has been trying to rebuild.

Byers told the board his house at 3232 West Hartland Drive was demolished after the fire and…

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