A recent article details one man’s offer to fill a municipal code enforcement position “free of charge in the absence of a full-time officer”.
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Detroit MI Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new initiative to address blight by installing solar arrays in 3 residential neighborhoods.
Mayor’s Press Release includes an overview, the land acquisition process and home improvement community benefits for adjoining homeowners.
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ABC News Detroit plans to rein in solar power on vacant lots throughout the city
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The Local Government Commission of Pennsylvania General Assembly, a bicameral and bipartisan legislative agency released a new report titled “Property Maintenance Code Enforcement Report”
Contributions to the report came from
- Pennsylvania Statewide Blight Task Force
- Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs
- Pennsylvania State Association of Township Supervisors
- Pennsylvania Municipal League
- National Conference of State Legislatures
The conclusions drawn include
- Over ¾ of municipalities have not considered intergovernmental agreements for property
maintenance code enforcement. - Almost 70% of municipalities issue 50 or less property maintenance violation citations, on
average, per year. - In identifying both major obstacles to property maintenance enforcement and contributors
to blight, non-responsive, absent, and/or negligent property owners and landlords were the
highest rank factor. - Nearly all municipal respondents (93%) characterize their community’s degree of blight as
either low or moderate, but only 28% agree or strongly agree that their capacity to combat
blight is sufficient. - Half of property owners and developers disagreed or strongly disagreed that property
maintenance code expectations are clearly communicated by the municipality, with less than
a quarter (24%) rating the consistency across municipalities in property maintenance code
expectations and standards as consistent. - Over ¾ of property owners (78%) said that property maintenance code enforcement factors
either somewhat or strongly into their future planning and development strategies.
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