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Communication from the City Manager and Community Development Director with a Request to APPROVE a CONTRACT with JIMAX for Demolition of Residential Properties as the Primary Contractor and RIVER CITY DEMOLITION as a Backup Contractor.
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BACKGROUND: The City of Peoria has instituted an aggressive demolition program over the last few years to remove blight from neighborhoods and eliminate a major public safety hazard.
As the Community Development Department continues to demolish dangerous structures (as funding allows) the need for demolitions continues to grow. The City of Peoria has three avenues to obtain a demolition/demolition order.
The first avenue is to present a case through the Circuit Court system and present a case that shows the property is a demolition candidate. The private property owner can ask the court for a time extension to bring the property into code compliance. If they do not, the judge will issue a demolition order to the City of Peoria. The City does not own the property but has permission to pursue a demolition. Before the demolition occurs, the City has a salvage contractor go through the property and remove any items that could be salvaged. The City of Peoria then makes every attempt to collect the cost of the demolition from the private property owner.
The second avenue is to present a case to the Circuit Court to have a property declared abandoned. If the property meets the three abandoned property requirements, (property must be a dangerous building, property must be vacant and abandoned, and the property has two years of unpaid property tax) the City asks the judge to declare the property as abandoned. The City of Peoria then becomes the deed holder of the property. Staff does a thorough inspection of the property with a realtor to determine if the property could be sold and rehabbed by a private property investor. Historically, about approximately 98% of properties obtained through ...
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