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Council debates language, amendments for vacant commercial-structure registry
Summary
Council members and staff sparred over whether proposed ordinance language creates a city "duty" to register vacant commercial structures; staff said the draft does not impose a duty and presented a combined Reynolds–Ingram amendment package to resolve conflicts.
City council members spent substantial time debating wording in a proposed ordinance to register vacant commercial structures, focusing on whether the draft would create a city "duty" to register properties.
A council member (Speaker 2) said the language in "page 5 item d" appears to create two methods of compliance — voluntary registration and city-initiated registration — and argued that the item reads as if the city would have a duty to register and maintain vacant commercial structures. Speaker 2 asked, "If I own a building in Downtown Mobile... and I use it for 1 day a…
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