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Jackson committee pushes for a ‘blight dashboard’ and earlier outreach to struggling businesses
Summary
Committee members and staff discussed creating separate residential and commercial blight dashboards, using licensing and utility data to flag at‑risk properties, and tasking staff to compile a citywide business/contact list to enable earlier intervention.
The Planning and Economic Development Committee of Jackson City on Feb. 5 discussed steps to spot and address commercial blight earlier, including a proposed public-facing dashboard and new outreach to businesses.
Chair opened the discussion by urging a proactive approach, saying the council should “come up with a, maybe some kind of blight dashboard for both a dashboard for the blight housing and a blight dashboard for commercial properties” so leadership can identify problem properties and intervene before owners abandon them.
Code enforcement told the committee it is handling several…
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