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Council receives Community Preservation update; staff to expand CityDetect cameras and seek abatement/legal contracts

Lancaster City Council · March 24, 2026
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Summary

City staff outlined code‑enforcement reorganization, CityDetect camera deployment and RFPs for legal counsel and abatement contractors; staff reported 2025 enforcement totals including ~37,000 parking citations, 2,764 code cases and 410 towed vehicles.

City staff gave an extended Community Preservation presentation describing recent reorganization, data-driven enforcement and planned procurements to strengthen code enforcement.

Justin Hillman, the city’s Community Preservation manager, explained the team’s emphasis on education and voluntary compliance and outlined enforcement work across parking, mobile-home inspections, residential rental inspections, commercial property enforcement and abandoned-vacant-lot cases. Staff cited 2025 operational figures:…

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