The issue of rural blight shuld be addressed by Geary County officials during the coming year.

Ben Bennett, Geary County Commission Chair, said this week they are still looking at something that they can do to take care of the blighted areas in the county. “and get some kind of an enforcement process. We’re looking at the county code court. We’re going to study that in 2016, and hopefully have something in place by the 2017 year. But it’s going to take awhile to get all the nuts and bolts put together to try to come up with that.”

Bennett noted it would work just like a municipal court with a judge who can rule on what must be done. “And if nothing done then we can have a ruling that we can attach that property somehow to the tax part of that particular party if people don’t abide by the zoning regulations and the code ethics.”

This is still a work in progress at this point.