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Youngstown mayor to toughen housing code enforcement
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Enforcing the city’s housing code is a top — if not the top — priority for Mayor Charles Sammarone.
He’s been mayor since only Aug. 1, but Sammarone said wherever he goes, he hears complaints about housing code enforcement, and he agrees.
“I’ve been in city government for 28 years, and for 28 years, our code enforcement hasn’t been good,” Sammarone said Monday at a city council housing, community and economic development committee meeting.
That’s going to change very soon, he said.
Sammarone wants to put Maureen O’Neil, the city’s rental property registration administrator, in charge of a new program to focus on housing code enforcement.
O’Neil envisions four full-time inspectors checking houses for code violations.
Read more in Tuesday’s Vindicator and vindy.com
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This should take the heat off the killings on the SouthSide . . ..
Better make sure the inspectors are licensed to carry a weapon and have a police radio. They will need them, seriously! Their lives will be threatened!
Oh, and make sure they only carry $5.00 cash on them with no wallets or credit cards.
GOOD WAY TO CHASE MORE TAX-PAYING CITIZENS OUT OF YOUNGSTOWN. NOBODY WANTS TO BE HARASSED. WE'RE TOO BUSY TRYING TO SURVIVE
If we chase everybody out we can raze everything and make one big park!
Start with all these forclosed homes these banks own... Lets see the city recieve some real time money.
Recycling should be made more of an effort.
Cleaning up the housing problems is a good way to start the cleanup of Youngstown. Why did ex-Mayor Jay not see the light? I applaud Mayor Sam for his actions going forward.
"Enforcing the city’s housing code is a top — if not the top — priority for Mayor Charles Sammarone."
WHAT ! NOT JOBS ? NOT CRIME CONTROL ? Let the good times roll . . . ..
This is a good idea. The city looks horrible. Make people be responsible for their property. Everyone talks about how terrible things are, well, this is a way to get eyes out in the city and get things taken care of.
No one wants to live next to a house that hasn't been painted for 25 years or next to a hoarder or even someone who thinks having 100 cats in the home is a good idea.
Tearing down blighted properties requires identifying them first. This will do that.
Westlake Terrace units were rebuilt with tax monies . They lasted a few years and were tore down . Now new units grace the spot and crime boils around them . How long before they need tore down and rebuilt ?
WESTLAKE TERRACE SECOND PHASE . . ..
http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/jul/05...
Westlake Terrace housing project being replaced9 CommentsEmailPrint
Published: Tue, July 5, 2011 @ 1:51 p.m.YOUNGSTOWN — The city’s Design Review Commission approved today the design and development of the $20 million to $22 million demolition and replacement of the Youngstown Metropolitan Housing Authority’s Westlake Terrace housing project.
The plan is to replace Westlake Terrace with the 120-rental-unit Village at Arlington. The low-income project will be townhouses on a location between Madison Avenue, Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Griffith Street.
Demolition is to begin in 60 to 75 days, said Clifford Scott, YMHA’s executive director. Demolition will take five to six months.
Construction on the new buildings will begin early next year and take about 18 months to complete, Scott said.