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Public foreman warns closing building department would harm enforcement as council advances removal to rules
Summary
A city foreman’s letter urged Council not to eliminate the Building Department. Council floor votes advanced the proposal to remove the Division of Building Inspections from the public-service department and relocate property maintenance and zoning inspections to Planning; the measures now go to Rules Committee for drafting.
A letter from city Street Department general foreman Kyle Breeding warned Barberton City Council on June 9 that eliminating the Building Department would “have far more harmful consequences” for inspections and property-maintenance enforcement, and urged council to reconsider.
The letter was read into the record during the regular meeting after committee sessions. Breeding described his eight years as a property-maintenance inspector and said removing the local building commissioner would weaken enforcement and slow permitting, legal proceedings and…
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