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Residents press Inkster council for stronger code enforcement as overgrown lots persist
Summary
Multiple residents urged the Inkster City Council to address long-standing blight, uncut lawns and weeds on main thoroughfares; callers proposed neighborhood block-club captains and a volunteer code-enforcement committee to improve reporting and follow-up.
Residents at the August Inkster City Council meeting pressed elected officials about persistent blight: overgrown lots, uncut lawns, abandoned vehicles and weeds along major roads that they said are lowering property values and attracting pests.
"We put a proposal together regarding code enforcement," Shirley Hankerson told the council, asking the city to consider a volunteer committee of two people per district to work with code officers and hold absentee owners accountable. Hankerson said…
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