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Workshop trims vacant-building rules, sets fee cadence and tightens lien language
Summary
At a July 11 workshop, councilors and staff advanced edits to the nuisance ordinance’s vacant-building provisions: they agreed to make vacancy a 2-year long-term threshold, move fee amounts to the city fee schedule and require staff to reconcile lien/abatement language for collection procedures.
A city/county workshop on July 11 continued revisions of the nuisance ordinance, with participants focusing on vacant buildings, fees and how the city would recover abatement costs.
The most immediate changes agreed to were procedural. After debate, the group directed staff to change the draft’s long-term vacancy threshold from five years to two years so properties vacant and boarded or without utilities for two years could be treated as long-term vacant. Speaker 6 summarized the shift toward consistency: “So we’re gonna change the 3 years to 2,” and the group confirmed the shorter threshold by consensus. Staff were asked to change all cross-references in the ordinance to match.
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