Fort Pierce redevelopment panel debates new tools to tackle long-term vacant properties
At a Fort Pierce redevelopment meeting, staff explained that code enforcement can act only on life‑safety defects and that magistrate-court timelines and limits hamper quick remediation; commissioners asked staff to research a dormant land‑bank ordinance and legal options to speed action on investor‑owned vacant properties.
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Chair (S1) opened a Fort Pierce redevelopment meeting by framing a persistent problem: boarded and long‑vacant residential and commercial properties that neighbors say blight neighborhoods and can harbor crime. Staff and commissioners spent the session outlining enforcement limits, funding options and possible policy changes.
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