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West Palm Beach magistrate reduces multiple long-running code liens, orders payments
Summary
Special Magistrate Amity Barnard approved negotiated reductions to longstanding code-enforcement liens across several properties May 1, trimming six- and seven-figure liabilities to amounts intended to allow sales or rehabilitation while keeping deadlines for payment.
Special Magistrate Amity Barnard on Wednesday reduced a series of long-running code-enforcement fines and entered orders designed to clear liens that have impeded property sales and rehabilitation.
Barnard reduced a $37,400 lien tied to 1152 Okeechobee Road to $5,000, payable within 60 days, after the city and the property representative told the magistrate they had reached an agreement. "I'll reduce the previous fine amount from 37,400 to the mutually agreed amount of $5,000 payable within 60 days," the magistrate said on the record.
At 941 McIntosh Street the magistrate cut two historic liens: a construction-without-permit lien that had accrued to $817,200 was reduced to $8,000,…
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