The City of Quesnel is giving the owners of the Maple Park Mall until February 19th to seal all openings to the deteriorating building.
Council unanimously approved a motion at last (Tuesday) night’s meeting to issue a remedial action order.
Tanya Turner, the Director of Development Services, said the mall is in a state of disrepair and it attracting nuisance and hazardous activities. “There is evidence the site is being accessed by multiple persons and theft, vandalism and shelter are all occurring at the facility making it a very dangerous situation. The City has been unable to contact the owner. The mortgage company also state that they have been unable to contact the owner. City, emergency and bylaw staff have made numerous calls to this property.”
After that the city will do it and then charge the company.
Kari Bolton is the Director of Finance.
“Just to clarify. If we end up undertaking the work, we will invoice it to the property, so it will then go onto property taxes. So it’s only if it went to tax sale and the city became the purchaser would we be incurring these costs. It will go against the property, so whoever pays the property taxes will cover the costs.”
The estimated cost of the work is 35 thousand dollars.
