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Caribou planning board considers drafting property-maintenance, vacant-building rules after Presque Isle and Bangor review
Summary
Staff reviewed models from Presque Isle and Bangor and recommended drafting a local property-maintenance and vacant-building ordinance that references the International Property Maintenance Code; board discussed staffing, enforcement mechanisms, special assessments and use of permitting software.
Planning staff told the board they had reviewed property-maintenance and vacant-building approaches used by Presque Isle and Bangor and recommended moving toward a locally tailored ordinance that references the International Property Maintenance Code.
Speaker 3 summarized conversations with Tim St. Peter in Presque Isle and said Presque Isle allows special assessments on property tax bills for remedial work, uses permitting…
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