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Planning director details 2024 code‑enforcement workload and cautions that rental‑inspection districts would require more staff
Summary
Kevin Vaughn, director of Planning and Development Review, presented 2024 enforcement statistics for the Property Maintenance and Code Enforcement division and told the committee that a proposed residential rental‑inspection ordinance would need district‑level staffing analysis before districts are established.
Kevin Vaughn, director of the Department of Planning and Development Review (PDR), briefed the Public Safety Standing Committee on the work and capacity of the city’s Property Maintenance and Code Enforcement (PMCE) division and on a residential rental‑inspection ordinance introduced to City Council the previous night.
Vaughn said PMCE enforces primarily two sections of city code: Chapter 5 (building code, adopted from the state building code, covering defective maintenance and unsafe structures) and Chapter 11 (environmental code, covering tall grass and accumulation of refuse). He provided 2024 activity figures: more than 4,200 new code cases started; just over 4,000 notices of violation (NOVs) issued (about 1,000 for defective maintenance and 2,500 for environmental issues); 308 unsafe-structure determinations; and 193 properties abated (grass/weeds or boarding). Vaughn said PMCE closed more…
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