TIPTON More than a year after flooding shook the housing stock in Tipton, Mayor Don Havens said there is cause for a positive attitude moving forward.

While demolition permits may outnumber building permits due to the razing of flood-damaged properties, Havens believes the numbers are only a temporary setback on the road back to increased real estate within the city. A good portion of new home construction has occurred in the Maxey-Hopkins development on the west side of town, Havens noted.

In the past 12 months, roughly, the city has seen five new homes built, he said. Although that doesnt sound like much, its pretty good relative to the year prior to that. Those are all non-flood related properties, in addition to two new flood-related home [constructions]. I find that to be a positive.

In 2013, the city of Tipton issued 23 permits for flood restoration projects, making up a decent portion of the 75 total building permits issued that year.

The city issued just 11 permits through May 2014, totaling $468,300, compared to 36 issued through May of 2013. A total of 22 permits, the majority of which were for flood restoration projects, were issued in the month of May alone.

The demolition permits are going to outnumber the building permits because of the flood demolition projects, Havens said. But thats a temporary thing and I hope that there will be a return into increased real estate.

Developers in Tipton County have been issued 33 building permits through May 2014, totaling $2,458,550, compared to 34 issued through that same period in 2013, totaling $1,808,994.

Pole barn installations and house additions have made up a significant amount of the construction in 2014.

Havens expects the opening of the Chryslers Tipton Transmission Plant, which began production in April, will have an impact on future housing numbers, but that wont be able to be measured in the short term.

"I think it will have a measurable bearing, but its too early to start to measure it, he said. Theyre only up to about 30 percent of the employment they expect to have. The people that work there are going to take a while to relocate.

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Published: Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 5:30 a.m. Last Modified: Thursday, June 12, 2014 at 7:09 a.m.

If the beat-up building at the eastern tip of Oakridge Boulevard is still standing after July 5, the property's owner, Russian hotel developer Protogroup, will be ordered to go before a special magistrate July 8 and face a possible $1,000-per-day fine until the motel is reduced to rubble. The maximum fine could run up to $25,000.

Fielding complaints about dilapidation and transients at the empty motel every week, City Commissioner Pam Woods has run dry on patience.

I think it is terrible that at the height of our summer tourist season, and when families are in town, that property looks that way, said Woods, who lives near the Seaside Inn. Shame on the property owners.

Protogroup has said it plans to start construction on the site this fall to put up two 300-foot towers with 500 hotel rooms and 105 condos. Protogroup Vice President Alexey Lysich and Rob Merrell, the Daytona Beach attorney on the project, said this week they hadnt heard about the citys new demolition demand. The latest plan is to topple the motel in September just before construction, Merrell said.

Protogroup applied for the demolition permit in May and paid for it, but hasn't picked it up yet, city officials said.

The project also is waiting on a permit from the state to build closer to the ocean than is automatically allowed, and that permit is expected by September, Merrell said. The state Division of Historical Resources has also been working to determine whether there's any historical significance to the motel, which was constructed in 1956, according to a recent letter from the state historic preservation officer to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection.

Even if Protogroup wants to immediately take down the building, July 5 could come and go without demolition.

Apparently the placed is loaded with asbestos, Police Chief Mike Chitwood said at last week's City Commission meeting when Woods asked for an update.

Just finding a company willing to remove and haul off asbestos a heat-resistant, fibrous material used in the past for building material and fabrics that can cause serious lung diseases if it's not handled very carefully can be a lengthy ordeal, the chief said.

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