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Michelle Yerkovich, Code Enforcement Specialist brought what looked to be very good news to the Feb. 13 Globe City Council Meeting.
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GLOBE — Michelle Yerkovich, Code Enforcement Specialist brought what looked to be very good news to the Feb. 13 Globe City Council Meeting. According to Yerkovich, the burned house on 2nd Ave in the neighborhood across US 60 from Fry’s might be transformed into an asset to the neighborhood without cost to the city. Improving or getting rid of an eyesore involves several legal steps, and she was well along in the process. The City Council had allowed her the funds. The catch was that the city was going to have to contract for the demolition itself and then try to recover the cost by putting a lien on the property.
Yerkovich advised the council that Billy Evans and his father William Evans Sr. were trying to buy the property, and build another house on the lot. Yerkovich explained that the Evans’s have an extremely good reputation and are known to do good work. This opinion was echoed by members of the council.
The father and son had to work through several challenges similar to those that had defeated those trying to buy the house that used to stand up next to the dog park.
Ownership and the ability to sell a property must be vested in someone for the property to be bought. The title to that house was lost in the misty labyrinths of probate and the house gradually fell apart. It was demolished at city expense in October.
Billy Evans explained that the owner of the 2nd Ave. house died in Superior so the judge there decided that he was a resident of Superior not Globe. This ruling interfered with the ability of survivors to sell the property to Evans, who had to gather evidence to prove that the owner was actually a resident of Globe.
Yerkovich and City Manager Paul Jepson got the council to give Evans more time to unravel the legal situation. As of Thursday Feb. 22, Yerkovich says that all of the most important challenges have been overcome, and all that is left for Evans to do is to go through the ordinary procedures of buying property. And the money that would have been used to demolish the house will be available to get rid of ugly and dangerous structures.
