This could be the year that Sedgwick County gets the authority to go in and clean up neighborhood nuisances that have persisted for years, including an unsightly pile of debris near west Wichita and a stinky house in Oaklawn south of the city. Nuisance abatement is high on this year’s Sedgwick County legislative agenda, an annual wish list of laws and funding policies the county wants to see enacted when the Legislature returns to session next month. While cities have fairly broad authority to force a cleanup of local eyesores and health hazards, that power largely stops at the city limits.
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Yassine Sadkhi had a customer looking at a used truck last month at his Atlas Motors on South Broadway. At first, the truck wouldn’t start, but when it finally did it made a loud but familiar noise. The catalytic converter had been stolen. The car lot owner said employees checked the lot and found converters missing on two other vehicles as well. He had five stolen last year and 21 have been so far this year, costing the business between $16,000 and $20,000. “All of the businesses, in general, have suffered in a way or another with the pandemic. Dealerships are no exceptions,” he said. “It has been really tough. It’s pretty slow already and then we have to keep going with these costly repairs.”
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