{"id":8155,"date":"2023-10-13T08:50:22","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=8155"},"modified":"2023-10-13T08:50:25","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T12:50:25","slug":"two-property-owners-facing-large-fines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/two-property-owners-facing-large-fines\/","title":{"rendered":"Two property owners facing large fines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By BOB SHRALUKA<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two property owners in Decatur are facing large fines if they fail to bring long-awaited cleanups to their properties.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Laurie Blythe&#8217;s property at 1620 W. Madison St. and Richard Chapman&#8217;s property at 922 Harrison St. were the latest code enforcement issues brought to the city&#8217;s board of works and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both properties have been long-standing issues, Brad Roe, assistant superintendent of the building and zoning department, told the board. That department oversees code enforcement in the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWeeds taller than cars,\u201d inoperable vehicles and a dilapidated building were some of the problems cited at the Harrison St. property, according to Roe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;ve dealt with this one before,\u201d starting in 2021, Roe said of the W. Madison St. property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blythe had been staying in contact with the department until about two months ago, \u201cthen she seems to have dropped off the face of the Earth,\u201d Roe said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both land owners were to be given notices of having 10 days to clean up their properties before fines of $100 will be imposed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By BOB SHRALUKA WZBD.com Two property owners in Decatur are facing large fines if they fail to bring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14,21],"class_list":["post-8155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-decatur","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/5638221CF9814F58A763474E956E4993.jpg?fit=298%2C404&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}