Oil City Council approved a resolution at the panel’s meeting Thursday that would gift the property at 157 Crawford St. to the city.
The house on the lot burned down in a fire in March 2020, and the landowners entered into an agreement to give the property to the city so the city could demolish the home.
Schroyer said after the city uses Community Development Block Grant money to demolish blighted properties there is a 10-year lien on the properties so the city can’t do anything with them.
“There has to be movement at the state level to get rid of the lien on the properties,” said Schroyer, who added he would like to see the empty lots absorbed into neighboring lots.
“Too many of the lots are too small to build on,” councilman Ron Gustafson said.
