Weathersfield trustees target 16 properties for blight investigation

MINERAL RIDGE — Weathersfield trustees have approved a list of 16 residential properties that the township wants the Trumbull County Health Department to investigate.

The township is asking the county to “determine if the dwellings, buildings and or structures ... can be declared ‘unfit for human habitation.’”

Trustees have declared the properties “a nuisance.”

Trustee chairman James Stoddard said the township also usually has the fire department check such properties, and will this time. The list is much longer than past lists.

“We’re trying to keep our township as blight-free as possible,” Stoddard said. “If you don’t, it will escalate — blight breeds blight.”

He noted, however, that the township would not attempt to take down a property if someone is in the process of “rehabitating” it.

Read the full story with the list of properties Monday in The Vindicator and on Vindy.com.