(A) If the City Enforcement Officer has issued an order and the City Council has adopted an ordinance requiring a nonresidential building to be repaired, altered, or improved or, alternatively, to be vacated and closed, and the building has been vacated and closed for a period of two years pursuant to the order and/or ordinance, then if the City Council finds that the owner has abandoned the intent and purpose to repair, alter, or improve the building and that the continuation of the building in its vacated and closed status would be inimical to the health, safety, and welfare of the city in that the building would continue to deteriorate, would create a fire or safety hazard, would be a threat to children and vagrants, would attract persons intent on criminal activities, or would cause or contribute to blight and the deterioration of property values in the area, then the City Council may, after the expiration of the two-year period, adopt an ordinance and serve the ordinance on the owner setting forth the following:
(1) The ordinance shall require that the owner repair, alter, or improve the nonresidential building in order to bring the building into compliance with the minimum standards established by this chapter within 90 days or, alternatively, demolish and remove the nonresidential building within 90 days.
(2) The ordinance shall require that if the owner fails to repair, alter, or improve the nonresidential building in order to bring the building into compliance with the minimum standards established by this chapter within 90 days or, alternatively, fails to demolish and remove the nonresidential building within 90 days, then the City Enforcement Officer shall demolish and remove the nonresidential building.
(B) In the case of a vacant manufacturing facility or a vacant industrial warehouse, the building must have been vacated and closed pursuant to an order and/or ordinance for a period of five years before the City Council may take action under this section.
(C) If the owner fails to comply with the requirements of the ordinance within 90 days, the City Enforcement Officer shall demolish and remove the nonresidential building.
(Ord. 22 ORD 12-14, passed 12-4- 14)