ADRIAN — Following a landslide victory in the Nov. 4 election by the campaign to repeal Adrian’s point-of-sale inspection ordinance for residential real estate sales, the head of Adrian’s community development department said staff time will be redirected toward broader code enforcement efforts.

“With the repeal of the point-of-sale ordinance, the time previously directed to that process will be redirected to addressing all ordinance violations within the city,” community development director Lisa Hewitt-Cruz said during the Nov. 17 city commission meeting.

Kasey White, a member of the group that campaigned to repeal the ordinance, expressed support for future blight elimination efforts. She said the group agrees with the need to address blight and create a cleaner, more vibrant city, but simply felt the point-of-sale ordinance was not the right way to do it.

The referendum to overturn the ordinance passed with 80% of the vote, and all three of the commission seats on the ballot were won by candidates who had expressed their opposition. They replaced three commissioners who had voted for the ordinance, two of whom were defeated and one of whom chose not to run for re-election.