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Seymour council notifies owners of multiple dilapidated properties, sets short deadlines

Seymour City Council · October 18, 2024
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Summary

The council voted to notify owners of several long‑vacant properties that they must secure or remediate their buildings and to revisit compliance next month; it gave one owner one month to board a house and another owner six months to address repairs before considering condemnation.

Seymour’s city council moved on a package of dilapidated‑property items, instructing staff to notify owners that remediation or conveyance is required and setting short deadlines for visible problems.

At a public hearing, staff described multiple long‑vacant structures with utilities disconnected for years and said the city’s ordinances require structures be secured to keep people and animals out. “At the very, very minimum… they have to be boarded to people and animals,” staff said. The…

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