KINGSTON – The City of Kingston now has a zombie properties law on the books, which will identify and register vacant buildings, determine the responsibility of the owners, establish a process for securing, maintaining and rehabilitating the properties and require registration of those properties with the building department.
The city has some 300 zombie properties at present, said Mayor Steven Noble, who signed the measure into law.
Kingston structured its legislation after one in the City of Port Jervis.
“We actually modeled our law on theirs because they have also gone after these properties pretty strongly because they also, as a small city, had some of the same issues,” the mayor said.
Noble said that in addition to “negatively impacting the appearance
of our neighborhoods, residential and commercial buildings that have been
left vacant and/or abandoned for significant periods of time can also
present serious health and safety issues.”
He said the new legislation “coupled with new initiatives we are implementing to address zombie properties, will strengthen our efforts to improve the quality of life in our community.”
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