Public officer affirms emergency boarding orders for two Knoxville College Drive properties

Nicholas Bradshaw affirmed existing emergency boarding orders for two properties on Knoxville College Drive during Friday’s public officer hearing.

Scott Elder told the hearing that both 923 and 933 Knoxville College Drive were boarded under an emergency order issued Aug. 10, 2026 and requested confirmation of those orders; Bradshaw replied he affirmed the emergency orders, citing that each building was "an attractive nuisance and dangerous and injurious to the health and safety of the community being open and accessible to children and members of the general public."

Bradshaw’s affirmation records the emergency boarding in the administrative record and preserves the city’s authority to recover costs or take further corrective action if owners do not remedy the unsafe conditions. The transcript does not record any owners speaking on these two items at the hearing.