LYNN – City Council on Tuesday voted 10-0 to schedule public hearings to discuss demolishing two different homes, including one that’s been empty for more than a year and another that has seen six fires in two years.The house at 54 Sewall St. is well-known to police, fire and Ward 3 Councilor Darren Cyr.”In the last three months there have been two or three fires,” said Cyr. “It’s nothing but a nuisance.”The council orders approved by the council ways and means committee and by the council allows councilors, after a hearing, to declare the two homes “a nuisance to the neighborhood or dangerous.”According to Patriot Properties, an online tool that assessors use, the house and land are worth $222,900. In the photograph accompanying the description of the home, however, it is neat, clean and landscaped. Today the house is boarded up and weeds fill the strip between the foundation and the curb. Scorch marks are clearly visible on the backyard deck, the shed appears to have been slashed with an axe and the area still smells of smoke and wet ash when the wind blows.One neighbor said she would be happy to see the property demolished. She called the fires scary “because the homes are so close together.”The Sewall property is owned by a bank, and Cyr said it is the management company that is dropping the ball in terms of caring for the house. He said they insist on explicitly detailed directions whenever the city asks them to attend to a particular problem with property.”Then they flip it around,” he said.Tucked at the top of Graves Road sits the second home in danger of being demolished, a low, green shingled home that is beginning to fall in on itself. A Pennsylvania Dutch hex sign that shows a bird of welcome is flanked by a bright orange sticker affixed to a boarded up front door that reads “Keep Out – Uninhabitable.””My understanding is it’s been in a particular family for awhile and it’s fallen into disrepair” said Ward 1 Councilor Wayne Lozzi. “I’ve been getting calls that there have been break ins and teens are going in. It’s a hazard.”Branches litter the roof of the house, which is also completely boarded up. A nearby shed has all but collapsed despite efforts to fortify the structure with plywood. Weeds growing into the wheelwell of an old van in front of the property indicate it hasn’t been driven for some time.Lozzi said the home is really more of a camp that has been empty for possibly three years or more.”It’s a public health hazard is what it is,” he said.It costs the city anywhere between $19,000 and $25,000 to tear down a home and even if the council approves the requests demolition is far from immediate. Notices must be sent, hearings held and often the threat of litigation will spur a property owner to action.Next door to the Sewall property is a second home that was also the scene of a recent fire Cyr said he doesn’t expect to have to put in a request to demolish that home.”It’s been sold, and a reputable contractor has taken over and will refurbish the house,” he said. “That’s a good thing for the neighborhood.”