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Highland Park code officer: unpaid vacant-property tickets are escalated to nuisance abatement after repeated noncompliance
Summary
Officer Najee Malone said owners who ignore vacant-property registration and repeated tickets typically see cases move from building-department notices to nuisance-abatement actions pursued by the city attorney; he cited multiple recent large-ticket counts and said demolition is sometimes the final outcome for irreparable structures.
Officer Najee Malone, Highland Park’s code enforcement officer, said the city starts enforcement of vacant properties when the building department issues a registration notice and the owner fails to respond. "If you own a building on Hamilton... they'll send you a letter that basically says, hey. You're in violation of the vacant-property registration ordinance," Malone said, describing typical 14–30 day timelines for owners to register.
Malone said cases that do not respond to registration or…
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