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Council updates zoning ordinance to reflect chief development officer's code-enforcement authority
Summary
The council approved changes to the zoning ordinance (Article 2, Section 2.2) to align local code language with a 2008 legislative act that consolidated development and code-enforcement authority under the chief development officer/community development director.
The Springfield City Council voted to amend the zoning ordinance to reflect that the director of community development, also known as the chief development officer (CDO), has administrative oversight of code and zoning enforcement.
Tim Sheehan, the city's chief development officer, said the change is an administrative "catch up" to implement requirements from state and local legislative actions tied to the city's emergence from receivership in 2008. "The request before you this evening is basically to catch up with…
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