Windsor Locks Officials Propose Hiring Someone to Handle Blight Complaints

It's come down to this...  What ever happened to neighbors helping neighbors?  A lot of these blight properties are seniors on fixed incomes.  Roll up your sleeves and help out your neighbors.  Let's not turn into the Blight Police.


The part-time person would help set up a system defined proposed changes to the town's blight ordinance.


The Windsor Locks Board of Finance is considering a suggestion to hire a part-time employee to oversee a proposed blight ordinance.

Officials have been revamping the current town ordinance to better define blight and make it easier for complaints to be handled. The board heard details of the proposal at its meeting Tuesday.

First Selectman Steven N. Wawruck Jr. said blight has become a central theme in Windsor Locks during the past four or five years and seems to come to a head in the past 10 months or so.


Read the rest of the story on the Patch by clicking here:  WL Blight Story