Bonner v. City of Brighton

This case involves two landowners’ facial challenge to the constitutionality of § 18-59 of the Brighton Code of Ordinances (BCO), which creates a rebuttable presumption that an unsafe structure may be demolished as a public nuisance if it is determined that the cost to repair the structure would exceed 100 percent of the structure’s true cash value as reflected in assessment tax rolls before the structure became unsafe. Specifically, we address whether this unreasonable-to-repair presumption violates substantive and procedural due process protections by permitting demolition without affording…