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City working to clean blighted properties
10/12/2009 6:42 AM by John M
The RTD is reporting that the city is pushing to get caught up on a back-log of cleaning neglected properties across the city, and cites an example on Chimborazo Boulevard:
A new, wooden fence concealed an ugly truth at 506 Chimborazo Blvd. in Richmond’s East End. Mosquito-infested brush, broken glass and construction debris were strewn in large piles across the yard behind the vacant, two-story house. Michael Evins, a grounds division manager in the Department of Public Works, paused in his vehicle off a narrow alley and said the yard appeared to be a dumpsite for much of the neighborhood.
nice… a good baby step… how about actually fining people when they fail to maintain their property? Or seizing such property and selling it to someone who will properly take care of it? the city needs some teeth… or something…
Bullwinkle,
Before you go too far down that path, look at how little power the legislature has given localities to deal with blighted property. It takes more than a year in most cases, and that’s even if you can find the owner.