A number of homes in Bristol Township are slated to be blighted.
This month, Bristol Township Council approved moving forward with the process of blighting five properties as part of the community’s fight against eyesore homes.
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Council voted to move forward with blighting the following properties:
- 1825 Willow Avenue, Bristol
- 722 Third Avenue, Croydon
- 2808 Dixon Avenue, Croydon
- 927 Winder Drive, Bristol
- 77 Appletree Drive, Levittown
Several homes have been the subject of neighbor complaints and have violations issued against them by the township. For some of the properties, the township has been forced to cut the grass and clear brush.
The home on Dixon Avenue had debris piled outside. The township ended up having to come in and clear the property of debris for the second time in recent years, said Heather Mahaley, the township’s community development director.
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As part of Bristol Township’s efforts to fight blight, which is in partnership with the Redevelopment Authority of Bucks County, properties approved to be blighted are often behind in taxes, abandoned, eyesores, badly damaged, or the owners are dead or have vacated the property.
Mahaley recently told the Council about previous success stories that have come from the blighted home program. She pointed to eyesore property at Mallow Lane in Levittown, which has since been torn down and a new home built. The new home sold for $328,000 in December.
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The township has 208 abandoned or blighted homes just a few years ago. Mahaley said the list now stands at about 75 homes.
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