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VOLUME 21, NO. 12
Arcadia Warns Empty-Home Owners: Non-Compliance Subject to ‘Summary Abatement’
This is the largest overhaul of abatement regulations since they were imposed on the City in 1972 BY DANIEL GARAY
A Residential construction sites that cease activities will be subject to the new ordinance.
– Photo by Terry Miller / Beacon Media News
t the City Council meeting on March 21, Ordinance No. 2346 was introduced and subsequently passed to the unanimous agreement of the council members. This ordinance amends the abatement regulations in the municipal code to allow the City to enter vacant properties and rid the premises of ‘nuisances.’ These include things such as: landscaping, weeds, pests, wildlife, coyotes, and squatters. The ordinance was at first suggested by Mayor Tom Beck during the City Council meeting regarding the coyote-trapping measure on Feb. 21. Vacant houses, however, have been an issue simmering in the minds of residents who have seen them as part of SEE PAGE 8
84 Shaved Heads Raises Approximately $56,615 in one Night Arcadia’s Matt Denny’s Hosts 16th Childhood Cancer Fundraiser – STORY AND PHOTOS BY TERRY MILLER
STORY ON PAGE 25 Kelsey Whitmore’s expressions were priceless last Wednesday as one of the few women who selected to shave her head (with the wonderful assistance of Del Sol styslists) in solidarity with those suffering from the effects of chemotherapy during cancer treatments.