City Demolition Ordinance Up for Final Approval
The council is making a choice on an ordinance that will help it fund demolition.
The New Port Richey City Council is poised to decide whether to give final approval to an ordinance that paves the way for the city to raze blighted or slum properties. Council members are voting Tuesday on the ordinance. The ordinance is modeled after a Pasco County ordinance, and it allows the city to access resources to help with demolition. Sherman Applegate, city public works director, has said the ordinance opens the way for the city to seek federal Neighborhood Stabilization funds disbursed by Pasco County to assist with demolition. The city would bill the property owners for the full demolition cost and be able to place a lien on the property if the bill was wasn’t paid in 30 days. The property owner could appeal a demolition for a…
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Randy Withers
10:55 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
I would really like to know , not only what they mean by, "The structure being detrimental to New Port Richey's morals" as well as who is going to determine what New Port Richey's morals are? I think that this word was misused in this text and should be taken out so no one CAN misuse or abuse their authority by assuming what is or is not moral. more ›