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Property Maintenance Task Force What is a Property Maintenance Task Force and why have one in your community? A ground-breaking article published in 1982 by James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling entitled "Broken Windows" in which the authors posited that to deal successfully with quality of life problems, those problems should be addressed when they are small:
If a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired; all the rest of the windows will soon be broken. This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in run-down ones. Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
Mayor Lawrence Soos was inspired by this concept and created the Property Maintenance Task Force in April of 2008.
Run-down properties and problem property owners can be major impediments to maintaining or revitalizing a quality community. No matter how many property owners and tenants work together to renovate facades, improve streetscapes, or maintain properties, just one run-down property or one absentee property owner can thwart all of those efforts.
Mayor Robert Ortt understands the Property Maintenance Task Force is first in the identification of these problems and implementing corrective measures to eliminate them. 
Agenda for: March 17, 2010 |
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