Demolition Ordinance Would Help City Fight Blight
The New Port Richey City Council gave initial approval to an ordinance that will open the way for it to get help funding demolition of slum or blighted properties.
The New Port Richey city council approved this week the first draft of an ordinance that paves the way for the city to raze blighted or slum properties. Four council members were present to vote at a meeting Tuesday, and all four voted in favor of approving the ordinance. The ordinance is modeled after a Pasco County demolition ordinance, and it allows the city to access resources to help with demolition. The city recently had to pass an emergency resolution so that it could raze trailers at the troubled Walden Pond Mobile Home Park. City taxpayers are on the hook for the demolition, which is now topping $62,000. “Given the current situation... I think that this is a positive ordinance for the city, moving forward, to have in its set of …
Michael Malterer
9:47 pm on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
There are many properties that the City owns that have become just as dilapidated. What are we to do for those places? This kind of ordinance wouldn't be needed if the City Council would have been more proactive in the economic development arena. When people have high paying jobs they will fix their own property and then the City can focus on their paying down their debt. Seems like we need a new… more ›