Council approves resolution to abate long-running code violations
Bonner Springs City Council authorized the city to abate chronic municipal code violations at a property after repeated enforcement actions and court penalties; staff said abatement costs will be assessed to the property and carried as an assessment if unpaid.
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Bonner Springs City Council voted to authorize city-initiated abatement of ongoing municipal-code violations after staff told the council that prior enforcement and court actions—including jail sentences in at least one case—failed to bring the property into compliance. Mark Lee, the community development director, told the council: "Therefore, the last and only remaining step in our process is for the city to abate the violation as allowed for in the municipal code and assess all associated costs to the property owner."
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