AURORA | Amid local and national furor over three ramshackle Aurora apartments, city lawmakers are favoring a new law that would allow the city to step in and manage derelict buildings.

“We want people to come into compliance,” said Councilmember Stephanie Hancock, the bill’s sponsor. “We want to make sure that our neighbors, the people who live in these communities, the folks who surround these communities, are safe and secure.”

The proposal, allowing the city to intervene in the management of residential and commercial properties that create public safety hazards, comes amid Aurora doing just that at three northwest Aurora apartment complexes. Those apartments have been the center of a national controversy over allegations of immigrant gangs overrunning the buildings, a narrative crea

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