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ng, which sore said 005, the City In D/thr .ough itmgt?fa]i'dan, Co�x�.c d abatement of the, length. of the grass, the proan up damage mes reached h.eigh.ts of that. occg th.e big stomataches. Couhcil Member last Seollowing the, tnn said she received au.tho ' aiiou; areal estate agent se complaints. appr ch city staff and indicated :hey said. it's an eyesore the. caner would consider an offer to get torn down," she m the city to buy the land. The ` roperty had already been on the 'tried workix�.g with the market for approximately six e wners to clea2teibet, months, and the listed. price had on said. In Nor - dropped. from $795,000 to $675,000 city began ise to encourage a sale. , - )erator, F hallo City staff decided it would be eas- . code violatio s. Bteibet ier to pursue acquisition of the se reached r commont, property rather than continue .g to th City Council efforts with the. owners to get the nutes m ,fan. 9 of this land and buildings back up to city. . A no alae any effort or . standards, Ericson. said. The pur- w rk with the City or chase "would allow for the edx- i with star' about fb.e . . see. Premium Stag on Page 2 . • Pfflowcas 5 0. z New Brighton considermg.. changes to ` i recyc program ehgan L a . staff writer New Brighton officials are cof.sidering . changing the city'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 pias- ! f o, glass andaluminum. The single -so -rt sys- tem would require n6 separation of recy- clables; they could all be thrown. into one bin's 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, whzch currently hover arouxid 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- i 616les must be separated, and. someone . must be paid to perform the job. And though statistics vary widely, the single -s ort system has been shown to cause more waste prod.- . u.cts, since people inevztabl� 'throw inappro- priate objects into the bins,' contaminating -other items. Double -sort systems have a waste product rate of less than. 5 percent, . . said.. Single -sort systems, on the 31 wand, have a wash product rate rang-