The city on Dec. 22 posted a request for proposals to prepare for the abatement and demolition of eight homes on six streets located as northerly as Brown Street and as southerly as 3rd Avenue Extension. The other streets with at least one home cited for abatement and demolition are Jones Street, Peck Avenue, Marshall Street and Marion Street. The purpose of the demolition will be to provide extra space for drainage basins and to encourage water flow away from other homes in the area, but Borer said there are certain deed restrictions that the city must navigate as a condition of accepting the federal funds — namely that the city cannot erect fencing and there are restrictions on tending the growth on the property. The RFP details that the purpose of the demolition of the eight single-structure homes came about by offering residents in flood-prone homes federal buyouts so the properties could be used for flood mitigation by encouraging regrowth and open space, disallowing future development.
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