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Council approves overhaul of property-maintenance code after debate over ION safety-net exemptions
Summary
The Des Moines City Council approved repeal and replacement of Chapter 61 (property maintenance), after members debated exempting households on the ION waitlist and extending administrative appeal windows; staff will return with refined language to prevent loopholes.
The Des Moines City Council approved a repeal-and-replace of Chapter 61 of the municipal code, which governs property maintenance and vacant properties, after councilmembers and staff debated tying enforcement to the city's ION program and changing appeal timelines.
Councilmember (speaker 5) urged the council to better link the new code to the ION safety-net program and to add specific exemptions for residents who have applied for ION but remain on a waiting list. "Part of why we've been talking about this so long is that we wanted to get the ION program in place as the safety net," the councilmember said, pressing for an exemption in section 61-6 for households on ION who are awaiting funding…
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