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Regular City Council Meeting August 19, 2003 Page 11 for all of the different forms that are required and they are now at the stage where they can go forward. They are meeting with the Building and Standard Commission to give them training in that particular area. They plan to go ahead and send out letters on these burned out houses that they have gone through the Historical Preservation Commission so they can be removed. Mr. Haynes these houses are privately owned, abandoned, and burned out. If the owners do not remove them within a certain time frame, the city can remove them and place a lien on the property. Mayor Fendley asked what the time frame from the time the house was burned like the one on Main Street. Mr. Haynes said there is not a time frame from the time the house burns. He said there was not a time frame on it until they got into the different ones they have here, but they have that house along with many others on their list. The time frame from the time they start sending out letters to them is a 10 day period of time from the time they are sent a letter in which they are to act upon it. It also has to be posted as a public notice in the newspaper that they are in violation and also post it on the property. After that time there will be a public hearing before the Building and Standards Commission, at which time the property owner can come and plead his case. That commission will issue an order as to whether or not house is to be removed or repaired. City Attorney Schenk reminded the Council of the policy adopted and said that they need to remember the role of the Historic Preservation Commission and that the City of Paris is now a Certified Local Government. The reason that was important is there is a provision in the Substandard Building Ordinance that comes from the Historic Preservation part of the State Law that causes the city to screen all the property of the intent to develop the substandard building for potential demolition.