Quote Originally Posted by Mackinaw View Post
It is indeed a completely public decision. One alternative motion [[or cause of action, technically) that the city could also be making is to simply seize it via the condemnation of blight power that rests with it under the power of eminent domain. That is not a difficult case to make here. It is blighted and the owner has basically never taken corrective measures. Upon obtaining title, the city can do what it does all day and has done in the past for blighted parcels-- RFP it to a new owner under obligations to secure and eventually restore it.

Sounds like one heck of a great middle road to take here.

RFP? Restoration? What are those? Everyone knows the way to revitalize an area involves lots and lots of scorched-earth demolition.