GLENDO — The Glendo Town Council directed the town’s attorney to proceed in court with the condemnation process for the old motel at 200 and 208 N. Yellowstone Highway during the council’s regular meeting May 2.
Town Clerk Brenda Hagen outlined the town’s history with the property during an interview Friday.
“We have been pursuing this actively for about seven years,” Hagen said. “For the first five years, we couldn’t get in touch with any of the owners — no correct address and that type of thing.”
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GLENDO — The Glendo Town Council directed the town’s attorney to proceed in court with the condemnation process for the old motel at 200 and 208 N. Yellowstone Highway during the council’s regular meeting May 2.
Town Clerk Brenda Hagen outlined the town’s history with the property during an interview Friday.
“We have been pursuing this actively for about seven years,” Hagen said. “For the first five years, we couldn’t get in touch with any of the owners — no correct address and that type of thing.”
Hagen added no work was done on the property until the town was able to reach the owner. She said the owner was Michelle Jocen, until Jocen quit-claimed the property to her sister Lovey Langley, who lives in southern Colorado.
Hagen explained that the property has to meet the State Fire Marshal’s electrical standards for a commercial property. She said the State Fire Marshal came to Glendo last year and placed a cease and desist work order on the property a couple of days before the eclipse. She said the owner took the notice down and told the State Fire Marshal’s Office that the property was to be zoned residential, so the standards did not apply.
Hagen said the property is not zoned residential, and the town had no plans to make it so.
“Then she became aware of the codes and the hoops that she needed to jump through,” Hagen said.
Hagen said the owner had until April to submit to the state a full set of plans to upgrade the electrical system completed by a licensed engineer. No plans have been submitted, so the town is moving forward with the condemnation process.