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Anthony ids buys ...esore gym .evelop.proper. ng, which some said In December 005, the City .ough it might:fall down, Council authorized abatement of the length of the grass, the property o clean up damage mes reached heights of that:. occurr during the big storm inches. Council Member last Sep tuber. Following the inn said she received autho ' ation, a real estate agent se complaints. appro ched city staff and indicated ;hey- said it's an eyesore the. wner would consider an offer' to get torn down," she m the city to buy the land. The roperty had already been on the tried working with the,#" market for approximately six wners to clean up tie months, and the listed price had on said. In Nove7mer dropped from. $795,000 to $675,000 city began issui*99 the to encourage a sale. )erator, K haldo-Ateibet, City staff' decided it would be eas- code violatio s. Bteibet ier to pursue acquisition of the se reached r comment, property rather than continue ing to th City Council efforts with the. owners to get the mites mJan. 9 of this land and buildings back up to city. .d no ake any effort or standards, Ericson said. The pur- w rk with the City or' chase ",would allow for the immeci- w with staff' about the see. Premium Stapp on Page 2 New Brighton considenng changes to recycling p Mehgan Lee staff writer New Brighton officials are considering changing the qty's recycling program from a double -sort to a single -sort system.. Under the current double -sort system, sin- gle-family homeowners must separate their recyclables into two categories: paper prod- ucts and containers. Fibers, such as newspa- -per and cardboard, must be sorted from plas- tic, glass and aluminum. The single -sort sys- tem would require no separation of recy- clables; they could all be thrown into one bin'. The single -sort system is easier for resi- dents to use, said City Sanitarian David Fridgen. Studies show that its convenience usually raises recycling participation rates, which currently hover around 55 percent to 60 percent in New Brighton, he said. But the single -sort system is more expen- sive than double -sort. Eventually the recy- clables must be separated, and someone must be paid to perform the job. And though statistics vary widely, the single -sort system has been- shown to cause more waste prod- ucts, since people inevitably `throw inappro- priate objects into the bins,' contaminating .other items. rouble -sort systems have a waste product rate of less than 5 percent, . F on said. Single -sort systems, on the o r hand, have a waste product rate rang-