Unfortunately, most of these are in private hands. I met with Steve Kramer who heads the County's Boarded Building task force 3 weeks ago to give my insight and offer my advice. Unfortunately the City and County only own 20 of the 155 boarded buildings, most are privately owned and were probably foreclosed on. The ones foreclosed on are mostly held by out of state banks.
These are the ones that the City should use their 249 ordinance to either force these banks to sell or take them over and rehab, which under the ordinance and State Law they can do. But currently, as long as the owner pays an annual $400 boarded building fee, they will just sit there. Steve Meldahl - still looking for access to rehab buildings! (Jordan) work ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "MPLS Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 6:25 AM Subject: [Mpls] Boarded Houses > I found this list to be amazing. What is the plan for all these > houses? What area of city government is responsible to maintain these > properties. I noticed some have been boarded for more than 8 years! > What prevents the city from either tearing these down or selling them to > organizations that will rehab. I am lucky that very few are in my ward > as the bulk seem to be in S Mpls. What is the impact of these boarded > properties to the surrounding homes? > Gene Swanson > Lind-Bohanon > > _______________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
