Daily News | Philly City Council members are backing a $72M plan to address quality-of-life issues
and a $4 million line item to create an additional crew to clean up sites plagued by illegal dumping.
More than $10 million in funding to clean and secure vacant lots, both those that are privately and publicly owned. Nearly $1 million to expand the Law Department’s code enforcement initiative, specifically to hold illegal dumpers accountable in court.Gauthier, a progressive poised to win a second term on Council this November, said she sees the investments as an antiviolence initiative, saying blight and nuisance businesses attract crime. She said it’s particularly “unacceptable” that blighted properties across the city are owned by the municipal government.
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