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Makanda board directs legal follow-up to clean up Crackersneck property
Summary
Board members asked village legal counsel to contact the property owner’s attorney and push for cleanup of the abandoned Crackersneck parcel by year-end; trustees also recommended updating the village's Abandoned Properties ordinance.
At the Nov. 4 meeting the Board of Trustees moved to resume legal efforts to address an abandoned property on Crackersneck.
President Tina Shingleton reported that she, Clerk Leslie Yambert and Trustee Elaine Ross attended a Greater Egypt Regional Planning & Development workshop on vacant properties, condemnations and code enforcement and received guidance on next steps. The minutes state that only one property owner is associated with the site and that village legal counsel will first contact the owner's attorney, as he had done about three years earlier, and will recommend the owner clean up the property by the end of the year.
The board recommended updating the village's Abandoned Properties ordinance to reflect current practice and streamline enforcement. The minutes do not list an ordinance number or a formal amendment; the action recorded is direction to counsel and a board recommendation rather than a formal adopted ordinance change.
If counsel proceeds and the owner fails to act, the village may pursue code enforcement remedies described at the regional workshop; the minutes note the village received information useful for that process but supply no timetable for specific enforcement actions.
