Despite nearly $25,000 in fines this year alone, squatters and junk filled the home before it caught on fire earlier this month.
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“When you've got sixty-year-old newspapers and magazines…there were boxes of eight-tracks that caught on fire. It's a pretty disgusting smoke,” Boyer says of the contents of the burning house. “I had to air house out for a few days.”since May 2023, isn’t just full of stuff, either. People often squat there, according to neighbors, who say they regularly see drug deals and trash on the lawn, and often worry about their safety.
“What I've been trying to do is use the city as a lever to force their hand, and I think the city is trying to do that,” Boyer says.According to Ryan Huff, communications director for CPD, the department added the 4463 Winona Court home to the NADB list after a complaint about unauthorized people coming and going. In the past eighteen months, CPD has had to board up the property nine times, he adds.
Because this property has gotten so out of control, CPD plans to schedule a show-cause hearing in January for the property owner to explain why the city should not take additional enforcement actions, which can include a civil penalty of $999 per day, Huff says.Boyer hopes the city will be able to take over the home via a receivership after the show-cause hearing, because he doesn’t think fines or boarding up the home's exterior are enough to fix the problem.
Boyer wishes the same of the Denver Police Department, which he believes isn’t able to do much beyond arresting anyone who squats at the house who already has a warrant out for their arrest.
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