Town cites 4 ‘nuisance’ properties

Owners of four residential properties in Springfield have been issued “nuisance” violation tickets from the town, and are working now to clean them up as fines accrue each day until cleanup is complete.

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2017-04-25 / Front Page Town cites 4 ‘nuisance’ properties Full compliance expected as building owners work on cleanup By TORY JONES DENIS toryd@eagletimes.com A house and garage at 67 Furnace St. in Springfield shows signs of cleanup since members of the Springfield Selectboard visited the property in February. — TORY JONES DENIS A house and garage at 67 Furnace St. in Springfield shows signs of cleanup since members of the Springfield Selectboard visited the property in February. — TORY JONES DENIS SPRINGFIELD — Owners of four residential properties in Springfield have been issued “nuisance” violation tickets from the town, and are working now to clean them up as fines accrue each day until cleanup is complete. Another 10 properties are also being reviewed and being considered for violation citations, all according to Springfield Town Manager Tom Yennerell. “Some of them are close to satisfactory,” Yennerell said at a regular meeting of the Springfield Selectboard on Monday, April 24. Yennerell said town officials are talking now with the owners of the other 10 properties. The municipality issued tickets, effective April 11, for 227 Seavers Brook Road, 22 Chester Road, and 67 Furnace St. in Springfield, and for 12 Central St. in North Springfield. On Monday afternoon at 67 Furnace St., a large trash disposal unit held much of the debris that was formerly piled in the yard, and the garage was partially boarded up. Three of the properties, on Chester Road and Furnace and Central streets, were part of a nuisance properties visiting tour the selectboard members took on Feb. 27, prior to a public hearing and meeting in which the owner was ordered to abate and remove outdoor debris from the properties within 30 days. Those three properties are owned by Will Hunter, chair of Community Restoration Corp. Inc. (CRC), who agreed on Feb. 27 to comply with the town’s order for cleanup. Under that order, the owner needed to abate and “lawfully dispose of” any debris originating on the property within 30 days, by the end of the day on March 29, 2017, and also not add any further debris outside the structures. Failure to abate results in a municipal ticket of $500 per day each violation continues to occur, according to that order. One property the selectboard visited in February, at 7 School St. in North Springfield, was not issued a ticket. Yennerell said the property owners issued tickets are being fined in accordance with the town’s regulations, until cleanup is complete, and must pay those fines through the same systems that processes traffic violation fine payments. Cleanup continues on each of the properties cited on April 11, and full compliance is expected, according to Yennerell.