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Official Decisions On Blight Are Not Always Transparent

Some homes in the city are fast-tracked to be demolished, while other blighted homes are left to collapse.
Karen Gadbois
Some homes in the city are fast-tracked to be demolished, while other blighted homes are left to collapse.
Some homes in the city are fast-tracked to be demolished, while other blighted homes are left to collapse.
Credit Karen Gadbois
Some homes in the city are fast-tracked to be demolished, while other blighted homes are left to collapse.

This week, the city held public hearings about overhauling the citywide zoning code.

Most people don't pay attention to zoning issues, but it has a direct impact on potentially every property in the city — from bars and retail to major manufacturing.

Reporter Karen Gadbois covers land use for The Lens. She talks with WWNO's Eve Troeh about the many ways that zoning decisions and other city initiatives like blight reduction can impact neighborhoods and homeowners, and how those important decisions are made.

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Eve Troeh was WWNO's first-ever News Director, hired to start the local news department in 2013. She left WWNO in 2017 to serve as Sustainability Editor at Marketplace.
Karen Gadbois