LIVERMORE FALLS — Town Manager Kristal Flagg told selectmen recently that the town needs some type of property maintenance ordinance. The Planning Board will be asked to develop one.
The Planning Board had developed a property ordinance that would have adopted much of the international property maintenance code. Voters shot down a proposed ordinance by an 87-200 vote at town meeting on June 11, 2013.
Selectmen voted unanimously on June 17, 2013, to ask the Planning Board to re-evaluate a property maintenance ordinance and try to make it more town-oriented before sending it back to voters.
Flagg told selectmen on Sept. 2 that she realizes how people feel about such an ordinance; some people don’t want it and some people would like one.
A new ordinance would not be as restrictive as the first one, she said.
The last proposal regulated property maintenance from the exterior to interior of buildings, including requiring habitable rooms to have insect screens on doors, windows and other outside openings.
Flagg has been talking with Code Enforcement Officer James Butler Jr. about the issue.
Flagg said the court will throw out a case regarding property maintenance if the town does not have an ordinance to back it.
She planned to ask Wilton for a copy of that town’s ordinance to share with the Planning Board.
She said the ordinance could go before voters in June 2015.
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