COLUMBIA SPY

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At February's meeting, Columbia Borough Council took action on several issues, chief among them the large number of blighted properties in the borough. BLIGHTED PROPERTIES Mayor Leo Lutz said the Lancaster County Planning Commission approved six more vacant borough properties as blighted. They will now move through the blighted process. “By going through this process, they're not going to sit there much longer and deteriorate. Something's going to happen with them,” Lutz said. Steve Kaufhold, manager of code enforcement, said there are currently 37 condemned properties in the borough, 14 of which have been placed into the blight process to be rehabilitated and put back onto the tax rolls. All of the blighted properties are vacant, according to Kaufhold. There are currently 26 total properties in the blighted program, with eight more in the process of being put into the program. Lutz said the blight program goes “hand-in-hand” with the Land Bank, another prog...

Demolition has begun on a building in the 400 block of Avenue G. The brick structure, once a livery stable, was condemned in June 2015 and suffered a fire the following September . Owners Samuel and Cynthia Bigler previously submitted a request to demolish the fire-damaged building. The issue was heard at the Historical Architectural Review Board's August 17, 2016 meeting, in which the Biglers stated the case for demolition.

Columbia Spy was lucky enough to get this photo of a flag at Locust Street Park today. This photo could be titled "Reflecting on the Flag."  (We noticed that flags in both photos were facing left.)

An observant reader gave us a tip about a U.S. Flag flying under the Wright's Ferry (Route 30) Bridge. The flag is suspended on a cable with a weight on the end and is about a quarter of the way out on the Columbia side of the bridge.

While few elected officials here and across the state take advantage of the benefit, some do — to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars in coverage a year per person. MORE: http://lancasteronline.com/insider/some-lancaster-county-municipalities-cover-health-insurance-for-their-elected/article_a090bdc8-f57e-11e6-9fd9-c3f9cc16804a.html

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