RFP Staff
♦ Salisbury City Council, in an attempt to keep the city’s head above water with the city’s estimated 700 to 800 vacant, neglected, and abandoned houses creating blight throughout Salisbury, approved new ordinances this past week. The new codes will take on the overwhelming task of addressing neglected and abandoned residences. The new codes are not geared to target properly maintained residential properties meeting minimum housing standards. The new codes hopefully will target properties blighting to their neighborhoods. The tumbledown houses that frequently become crack, meth, and squatter palaces. Basically dangerous nesting areas that pockmark the city.
The new codes define vacant, neglected, and abandoned. The new ordinances also seeks to identify the property owner/manager and demands the submission of a maintenance plan to assure the property keeps compliant with the codes. The code needs to be fulfilled within 90 days.
