After a full day of negotiating an agreement, owners of the Colonial Village apartment complex on the city s East Side, which has long been the subject of city investigations and resident outcry, pleaded guilty Tuesday to maintaining a nuisance property.
The owners, Apex Colonial Ohio LLC, now have a month to address the complex s longstanding issues, or face further legal action in the city s environmental court.
According to the agreement signed by Judge Stephanie Mingo, the apartment complex owners must meet a list of requirements, which includes:
Bringing and maintaining the apartment complex up to Columbus city code;
Employing at least six full-time maintenance staff members, with at least one member who is available after hours and on weekends;
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The Columbus Dispatch
Two and a half years after police warned a Galloway man that a home he owns in the Hilltop was the site of drug dealing and other felony criminal activity, the city of Columbus obtained a court order Tuesday declaring the property a public nuisance.
Frederick D. George, who is in his 60s, signed the agreement order in Franklin County Environmental Court granting a preliminary injunction and temporary restraining order to evict the tenants and board up the property at 135 N. Burgess Ave.
In a court document, Zach Gwin, an assistant city attorney in City Attorney Zach Klein s office, listed numerous police runs to the property after the Dec. 11, 2018 warning by certified mail to George of drugs and guns found during a search warrant executed there in December 2018.