With the demolition of four dilapidated houses within city limits scheduled over the next week city officials are blazing forward in their promise to clean up the city.
At a meeting Monday night Princeton Code Enforcement Officer Dickie Thomas said that a house where the city had been dealing with several squatters over the years was finally torn down Monday.
He added that four more houses are expected to be torn down throughout this week, two of which will be privately paid.
Thomas noted that two other houses on Franklin Street have been declared uninhabitable and will hopefully be dealt with soon.
Mayor Kota Young added that several houses have been torn down privately and thanked property owners for their cooperation in helping clean up the city.
Also during the meeting Mayor Young expressed that $100,000 has been set aside to redouble code enforcement efforts in the proposed 2020 city budget. He stated that the increase will allow the city to clean up the community, remove dilapidated houses, and bring new life and development to every neighborhood within the city.
