By Matthew Hall on May 17, 2016

City Hall wants property owners to keep their vacant buildings clean, safe and fully built.

At the May 10 Council meeting, Councilmember Sue Himmelrich and Mayor Tony Vazquez asked staff to return with proposals for regulating vacant buildings including registering vacant buildings, regulating the maintenance of vacant buildings, and requiring that the owner of a building with a valid permit for rehabilitation, repair, or construction, complete the rehabilitation, repair, or construction within eighteen months or a specified time certain from the date the permit was issued.

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