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Ansonia: What IS Blight? Archived

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I see so many posts here about blight. Ansonia is not alone with it's problems but when you spot something that seems to be blight and expect the city to be all over the problem, no one can quite tell what "blight" is. You can't let homes and business remain rundown and not maintained. It destroys the image of the community, reduces property values, etc.

The blight officer in Ansonia SHOULD be the busiest person in City Hall from what I can tell. Not that other towns don't have the same problem.

I wanted to post a PERFECT example. This is a house on Division Street. I don't know who owns it or care. However, it is sitting on the hill that leads to our main commercial district at Pershing and Division where many new projects are underway and improve the area and bring in more shoppers to the Derby/Ansonia area.

However, due to the odd exit/entrance design of Route 8 anyone coming down north, as we know, has to get off at Seymour Avenue and travel down this portion of Division to get to the stores. THIS mile or so trip from 8 through a residential area is their first impression of the area.

Not only that, the signal at the corner of Pershing and Division near Cumberland Farms is not the best. Traffic backs up right in front of the area of this house causing visitors (and residents) to have to view it in slow motion like a billboard that says "Welcome to Ansonia".

This home not only has a plywood window, it has a darn tree growing out of the roof! I am unsure how the blight regulation is written but if people don't consider THIS residence a perfect example of "blight" then something in the regulations needs revision.

Each time I pass this area I cringe that the house is left in this condition in such a high profile area. Can nothing be done?


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