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Updated: 2:51 PM Jun 30, 2009
Warren Circuit Judge Upholds Decision Against BG Code Enforcement Board
A Warren Circuit Judge upholds a lower court's ruling, reversing a decision to condemn a Bowling Green apartment complex.
Posted: 2:42 PM Jun 29, 2009Reporter: Gene Birk Email Address: gene.birk@wbko.com |
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A Warren Circuit Judge upholds a lower court's ruling, reversing a decision to condemn a Bowling Green apartment complex.
In July of 2005, dozens of residents of Bowling Green Estates were kicked out of their apartments when the facility was deemed unsafe.
Arun Mahtani, the owner, was forced to close the lower level of the apartments, and was fined $18,000 by the Bowling Green Code Enforcement Board.
Then in 2007, Warren District Judge Sam Potter released a twenty-page opinion, reversing the code enforcement board's decision.
Mahtani's attorney, Alan Simpson, called Potter's document a "scathing opinion," critical of the whole condemnation process.
Friday, Warren Circuit Judge Steve Wilson, upheld Potter's 2007 ruling, reversing the city code enforcement board's findings from 2005.
Simpson tells WBKO, he and his client would like to get a new hearing, and says "they're all ears" if the city wants to resolve the issue. The city can still appeal Judge Wilson's ruling to the Kentucky Court of Appeals.


