The issue of municipal blight designations has taken center stage within the last few years. Cases like Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), and City of Long Branch v. Brower, 2006 WL ...

Minneapolis and St. Paul will have another tool to jumpstart office-to-residential conversion projects if a bill under consideration in the Legislature becomes law. Tuesday morning, the House Taxes ...

This archival photo shows a home at 3341 Kings Park Circle in Kings Park that was abandoned and vandalized for about a year according to the lady that lived next door. wmarshall@macon.com It’s the ...

Adam Ragusea conducts a meeting attended by a broad swath of Maconites at the Centenary United Methodist Church in historic Beall's Hill where the discussion centered on blight and how to deal with it ...

The East Windsor Board of Selectmen revisited its blight ordinance at its April 6 meeting, forwarding the revised document to a town meeting. Town Clerk Ruth Calabrese presented an updated version of ...

Altoona should not ignore any potential resource in the fight against blight. That’s why the city should revive the Vacant Property Review Board, which has been dormant since about 2008. Evidence in ...

COLUMBIA - A group concerned about blight in Columbia held its first meeting Thursday. The group, known as Citizens Invested in Columbia, met to oppose a definition of blight applied to many parts of ...

Nobody likes the word. "'Disarray' is the word I prefer to use," says Colleen Gardner, co-chair of the Chief Garry Park neighborhood council. "I would love if we could use the term 'revitalization,'" ...

Urban Renewal is state enabled. See ORS 457.085. This is on my website and can be found on the state website. Arguably - one does not need to read much further than the first sentence to grasp this is ...