Nuisance law returns

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December 8, 2011

By Joe Olenick Lockport Union-Sun & Journal The Lockport Union-Sun %26 Journal Thu Dec 08, 2011, 01:46 AM EST

LOCKPORT — The Common Council is expected to call for a public hearing to be held on 2nd Ward Alderman Jack Smith’s proposed public nuisance abatement law.

Council members will meet Dec. 14 and are expected to call for a hearing to be held the following Dec. 21.

The law was on Wednesday’s meeting agenda, but was pulled following the pre-meeting Committee of the Whole session. Smith said he did not have a chance to speak with Chief Building Inspector Jason Dool, nor did the rest of the Common Council see the new proposal prior to Wednesday.

Smith said he wanted to have a public hearing before the council decided on the law.

“If you give me the opportunity, at least have the public hearing Smith said. “If you’re not fully supportive of it, I will certainly withdraw it.”

Smith brought the law up in 2010, but his fellow aldermen shared concerns that the law was threatening to property owners.

The proposed law would penalize property owners for certain bad acts of property occupants and empower the city to order “nuisance” properties vacated. Smith said there are some changes to the proposed law dealing with boarded up housing and abandoned properties.

Alderman-at-large Joe Kibler said he wasn’t in favor of the nuisance abatement proposal last year and still wasn’t now.

“Just another way the government getting involved with the public, I wasn’t in favor of that,” Kibler said.

Smith plans to meet with Dool and have a updated written version of the proposed law for council members to see by Tuesday.

Also Wednesday night, Council President and 1st Ward Alderman Richelle Pasceri said residents have until Friday to swap out and change their refuse and recycling carts, otherwise they’ll have to wait until May. The change is at no charge for property owners.

Pasceri said the city was running low on the 64 gallon carts, as people with the larger carts were finding they needed a smaller size. People with small sized carts were finding they were in need of a larger one.

“A lot want the 64s,” Pasceri said.

Contact reporter Joe Olenick at 439-9222, ext. 6241.

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