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Garden City considers administrative hearing bureau to speed blight enforcement
Summary
City staff described an administrative hearing bureau (a local blight court) authorized under the Home Rule statute as a faster alternative to municipal civil infractions for chronic blight cases. Council asked about appeals, case volume and costs; the attorney said appeals would go to circuit court.
City Manager Gibbons presented an option Nov. 3 to create an administrative hearing bureau (AHB) — a quasi‑judicial forum staffed by a licensed hearing officer — to adjudicate blight, zoning and related property maintenance violations more quickly than the current municipal civil infraction process.
"The creation of an administrative hearings bureau is specifically authorized by section 4 q of the Home Rule," City Attorney Kevin Bennett told the council, summarizing the statute and listing…
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