MACON, Georgia (41NBC/WMGT) Mayor Lester Miller announced a new initiative for tackling blight in the community.
“We must do this one house at a time, and one street at a time. We can do this, and we will do this together,” Miller stated.
Under a local nuisance ordinance, Mayor Miller says the county can remove houses too damaged to live in. The mayor says he partnered with code enforcement and Macon-Bibb County Fire Department to identify burned properties.
The fire department reported 849 structure fires over the past 5 years. Code enforcement chose 150 of those properties to assess and found 64 are unfit to live in.