Background: A local Wisconsin Community Development Authority is taking action to declare maintained properties blighted
What statutory language provides for development within an area under blight standards:
“an area which is predominantly open, and which because of obsolete planning, diversity of ownership, deterioration of structures or of site improvements or otherwise substantially impairs or arrests the sound growth of the community.”
Community Repsonse: Organized the Better Mount Pleasant group to call for the resignation of the Community Development Authority members utilizing blight as counter to the local government’s ethics policy.
There’s a conflict between state blight laws and the local government ethics policy? The local citizen group claims the local officers are violating the local Code of Ethics, which states “any public official who knowingly acts in excess of their legal authority and official capacity has committed misconduct in office.”
The Journal Times | Group calls for Mt. Pleasant CDA resignations amid blighting controversy