Westland, MI Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)
Key Facts
- Adopting ordinance
- Ord. No. 191-B-11 (7-18-05)
- Max time to complete work
- 90 days from notice
- Vacancy trigger
- 180 consecutive days unoccupied
- Appeal window
- 20 days from hearing decision
Summary
Westland orders owners of blighted or dangerous buildings to repair or demolish within 90 days of written notice, following a public show-cause hearing.
(a)(1)The building director or the building director's designee shall issue a notice and order in writing to each owner of or party in interest in the building or structure in whose name the property appears on the last tax assessment records. This notice and order shall include a time and place of a hearing on whether the building or structure is a blighted and dangerous building and a period of time in which the owner shall commence and complete the required alteration, repair or rehabilitation, or demolition and removal of the building or structure or portions thereof. All work shall be completed prior to the date of the hearing determined by the building director or the building director's designee and so stated in the written notice and order. In no event shall this period allowed to complete the work exceed 90 days from the date of delivery of the notice.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 66).
Full Breakdown
Sec. 22-44(a)(1) requires the building director or designee to issue a written notice and order to every owner or party in interest of a blighted or dangerous building, setting a hearing date and a deadline to complete alteration, repair, rehabilitation, demolition, or removal. That completion deadline may never exceed 90 days from delivery of the notice. A hearing officer appointed by the mayor then holds a public hearing and can sustain, amend, or dismiss the order; owners who fail to comply face city-ordered demolition at their expense under Sec. 22-47, with costs assessed as a lien on the property. Adopted by Ord. No. 191-B-11 (7-18-05).
Violations & Fines
Failing to comply with a Sec. 22-44 abatement order lets the city demolish or repair the structure itself and place a lien on the property for all costs under Sec. 22-47.
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