Panel completes work on property code for Hubbard Township

By LINDA M. LINONIS

linonis@vindy.com

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The work of the Hubbard Township Property Maintenance Code Committee is now in the hands of Mark Finamore, township legal counsel.

John Pieton, zoning administrator, said the 11-member committee met four times — twice in January and twice in February — and devised a comprehensive draft report about standards for property maintenance.

“In just two months, we took a major step,” Pieton said.

The committee’s purpose was to develop a maintenance code, and now that it’s been done, the committee will disband.

“It’s at the attorney level now,” Pieton said. “He makes sure everything is legal.”

After getting the OK from legal counsel, the report then will go to the zoning commission for review.

“The commission will take the report under advisement, then schedule a public meeting,” Pieton said. “It may be tweaked,” he said of the maintenance-code document

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