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Mesquite authorizes abatement at home after staff documents at least 260 rats
Summary
The city approved staff direction to abate unhealthful conditions at 574 Condor Street after code enforcement described a multi‑week response, animal control reported capturing at least 260 rats, and neighbors reported health and quality‑of‑life impacts; the city will clean the property and seek cost recovery via a lien.
Mesquite — City Council on Sept. 9 authorized staff to abate unhealthful conditions at 574 Condor Street after staff described repeated code-enforcement efforts and animal-control trapping that officials said yielded at least 260 rats.
Development services staff summarized a months‑long enforcement chronology: code complaints, notices to the owner, a temporary closure of the case after some remediation, recurring complaints and a subsequent rat infestation that prompted animal-control intervention. “For a couple of days ... animal control ... caught approximately 40 rats” early in the…
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