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Des Moines officials describe inspection workload: 33,000 rental units, 3,700 code cases annually
Summary
Neighborhood Inspections Administrator Dalton Jacobus briefed council on rental inspection volumes, code enforcement and nuisance vegetation work, including inspection frequency, common violations, updated fees and average compliance timelines.
Dalton Jacobus, neighborhood inspections division administrator, told the City Council the rental inspection program covers just under 33,000 licensed rental units in Des Moines and is the division’s primary workload.
Jacobus said the city’s code (chapter 60) requires licensed rental units to be inspected on a recurring schedule that ranges from every nine months to three and a half years; his staff said the average interval is about 1½ to 2 years. “There’s just shy of 33,000 rental units in the city of Des Moines that are licensed. Each of those units has to be inspected every 9 months to 3 and a half years, and that’s straight out of chapter 60 in the city code,” Jacobus said.…
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