SAC CITY, IOWA -
At the April 4, 2011 Sac City Planning and Zoning meeting, there was an extended discussion about how to deal with dilapidated buildings and properties.
Specifically, the question of how to get home and business owners to take enough pride in the appearance of their properties to self regulate was wrestled with. Sac City Council person Nick Frohardt, who is the city’s liaison on the Planning and Zoning Commission, has brought this very topic up in a number of different forums over the course of the last half year. Frohardt seems to be looking for a way to get people to take pride in their properties without having to “give them the stick”. (use heavy handed enforcement.)
Planning and Zoning member Steve Gerry by contrast seems to be suggest that utilizing the laws may be the way to go saying, “if you do it two or three times, people are going to see that they mean something.
Chairperson Shirley Phillips, in a sentiment that was echoed at one time or another by several of the other commission members suggested that the city could lead by example, cleaning up city properties. When the floor was opened to suggestions of what properties might be considered, the water plant and the sidewalks and curbs in the retail section of downtown were top suggestions.
No clear way forward was suggested, but there is the very firsts inkling of putting together some kind of “community pride” day, or perhaps partnering with the Hi20 Taskforce.* or the Partners for Progress who were themselves toying with the idea of doing something like this in the past, but never followed through.
The conversation wandered around for close thirty minutes touching on a variety of subjects from what is done with used paint at the landfill to why Ken Pap doesn’t have to pay to clean up Sunwise. That conversation can be viewed in full in the following video.
*this is the apparently name of the highway 20 bypass reaction committee of the Chamber/Mainstreet that is meeting on the third Mondays of the month at 7:30PM in the basement of the State Bank.
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