HOUGHTON — The Houghton City Council approved amendments to two city ordinances during Wednesday’s meeting regarding offenses against the peace and blighted premises within the environment ordinance. The approvals came after a public hearing overviewing the proposed changes and explanations from City Manager Eric Waara.

Ordinance 2025-340, Chapter 34 once considered blight to be in residential areas, but will now be applied to the entire city. Waara said the current ordinance does not apply to other non residential zoning districts such as commercial areas.

“So we added some specific conditions based on what we can see, and then we were also consulting with the city attorney on how we would make citations into enforcement,” Waara said.

The change made was Chapter 50 of Ordinance 2025-34

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