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Commerce council tables vacant‑building registration ordinance after residents voice concerns
Summary
City staff recommended removing an insurance requirement from a proposed vacant‑building registration ordinance and defended an annual inspection tool; residents and property owners raised privacy, cost and practicality concerns and the council voted to table the ordinance for further work and public discussion.
City Manager Lizendy told the Commerce City Council on March 23 that staff recommends removing any insurance requirement from the proposed vacant‑building registration ordinance because insurers will not write policies for vacant buildings and an insurance mandate would be infeasible to comply with. "Staff is recommending that we remove any requirement from insurance," Lizendy said, noting insurers generally decline to underwrite vacant structures.
The ordinance — presented to the council for a second reading and public hearing — is intended to create an annual inspection process and other tools to address hazards that existing code enforcement cannot detect from the…
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