The City of Warren’s Blighted Property Review Committee has demonstrated a willingness to work with property owners to address blight.

But even their patience has limits.

Those limits were tested during Thursday’s meeting when discussion turned to 211 Monroe St.

Scott Taylor, the city’s zoning officer, acknowledged that the committee’s involvement has been “ongoing for quite some time.”

At issue is a $1,200 bill that the owner must pay to reconnect the gas line.

“We’ve been very patient with this property,” BPRC Chair Ray Pring said. “What I need to hear is a plan.”

The owner, Jessi Solock said the increased fee to the gas company “put me between a rock and a hard place.

“It’s important to me to get this done,” she stressed.

BPRC member Denise Whipp said she feels like she hasn’t been told the truth at times about this property.

BPRC member Doug Hearn fleshed that out further.

“You’re one of the cases that I’ve sat through for this past year,” he said. “Your house is in a neighborhood that is a nice neighborhood. I have to agree with Ms. Whipp that I have a hard time sometimes believing.

“I want to believe,” he stressed. “So if you say it’s going to be April, I want to believe that. I don’t want to come to April and hear the same thing again.”

“You won’t,” Solock said. “I’m trying. I can only do so much with what I have.”

Whipp then made a motion to table action on a second blight declaration to the March meeting.

“We’re serious about it now too,” she said, stressing that she would make a motion then for the blight declaration if the utilities aren’t on.

Discussion then shifted to the property at 820 Carbon Place.

Taylor said that the city has been “contending with” that property for a few years now but was “able to push though some obstacles” to see a sale through there.

The committee met with the owner last month, who said he would get a permit in the city code’s office picked up by the time of the Jan. meeting.

“That permit is still sitting in our office,” he said, and the property “pretty much remains unchanged.

“The property has not progressed forward,” Taylor added. Since the last meeting is has “sat stale.”

Action on that property had been tabled to the March meeting previously.