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Ypsilanti council approves hearing‑officer order for 539 S. Huron after years of stalled work
Summary
After staff described missing inspections, degraded footings and five years of exposure, Ypsilanti City Council approved a hearing‑officer order requiring compliance at 539 South Huron within 60 days. The property's representative said litigation and a bad contractor stalled work and proposed a plan to finish the site.
YPSILANTI — The Ypsilanti City Council on Tuesday approved a hearing‑officer order requiring the owner of 539 South Huron Street to bring the partially built structure into compliance within 60 days, after staff described structural deficiencies and a multiyear history of uncompleted work.
City building official Jerry Dunham told the council staff found expired permits, missing special‑inspector reports for concrete and steel, footings that did not match plans, broken concrete block, missing bolts and bent rebar. “The structure has sat for now roughly five years without any protection from the weather,” Dunham said, and investigators flagged multiple enforcement efforts over the last two years.
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