City officials use nuisance abatement laws to try to relieve some of the problems that come with urban living: noise, drug sales, deteriorating buildings. But the laws themselves can create problems. Critics say abatement laws don’t really fix the nuisances. Instead, they put tenants at risk of being evicted, and they just shuffle problems around […]
Rochester Nuisance Abatement Law
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Nuisance Abatement Law gets overhaul
Rochester City Council adopted changes to the nuisance law after a review process lasting a couple of years.






