ADRIAN — It’s been a work in progress over several meetings but when the Adrian City Commission convenes for its first meeting of October, Monday, Oct. 7, commissioners will be tasked with reviewing and considering a revamped vacant building ordinance.
The ordinance has been a focus of the commission for a good portion of the summer. It has been modified, studied and fine-tuned at several city meetings, the last of which being the commission’s Sept. 16 study session.
The goal of Adrian’s vacant building ordinance is to ensure structures — both commercial and residential — are not sitting unoccupied for years upon years. The ordinance also seeks to maintain an up-to-date plan of action for owner-occupied buildings that have sat unattended for some time.
Per Adrian’s Code of Ordinances, the purpose of the vacant building ordinance is “to help protect the health, safety and welfare of the citizens by preventing blight, protecting property values and neighborhood integrity, avoiding the creation and maintenance of nuisances, facilitating rehabilitation and restoration, and insuring the safe and sanitary maintenance of dwellings, commercial and industrial buildings.”