LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The decision on Lima creating a landlord registry will be moved to 2024 as council members continue to discuss the topic. Council pushed the resolution to a third and final reading in their first meeting of January.
Councilors made some changes to the resolution that would require landlords to register their properties with the city at no cost to them. The council voted to add the definition of uninhabitable to the resolution, which would be used to trigger additional inspection of landlord’s properties if one is deemed uninhabitable. That will be at the discretion of the director overseeing the program. The council did differ if all the properties need to be inspected if one is deemed not livable.
“Most of our landlords are actually good. The problem is that a lot of our slum lords and business slum lords own several properties,’ says Carla Thompson, 3rd Ward Councilwoman “Several, sometimes hundreds, and so I don’t want to lose that entirely, because this is, like what the mayor said is the teeth that everybody keeps talking about what code enforcement needs. “
Council also passed a resolution congratulating former Hometown Stations chief videographer Phil Thomas for his retirement after 42 years with the station.
