Owners of dilapidated buildings get final notice:
An ordinance to fight blight and reduce the number of eyesore houses in Colorado Springs neighborhoods is being put to its first test.
Since the City Council passed the ordinance in April 2006, code enforcement officers have inspected about 120 houses and apartments on the city’s condemned property list.
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An owner of two dilapidated four-plexes is threatening to take the city to court — El Paso County Commissioner Douglas Bruce.
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It puzzles Lewis that some owners, such as Bruce, don’t simply comply because he said the city isn’t asking much.
“If he would just take the plywood off his windows and replace it with expanded metal, he’d be in compliance,” Lewis said. “We forced him to put the boards on in 2003. That was under the old code. The new code requires heavy screen so fire and police can see in vacant buildings.”
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