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City planning staff report 2024 code-enforcement workload; rental inspection ordinance will require staffing review
Summary
Planning and Development Review staff briefed the Public Safety Standing Committee on property maintenance enforcement statistics from 2024 and said a recently introduced rental-inspection ordinance would require discussion of district boundaries and staffing before implementation.
Planning and Development Review (PDR) staff told the Public Safety Standing Committee that property maintenance and environmental-code enforcement generated thousands of cases in 2024 and that a recently introduced rental inspection ordinance would require detailed planning on resource needs before districts are set.
“Last year in 2024, we had over 4,200 new code cases started. We issued just over 4,000 NOVs,” Kevin Jayvong, director of Planning and Development Review, told the committee. He broke the notices of violation (NOVs) down roughly into 1,000 for defective maintenance, 2,500 for environmental violations, and 308 for unsafe structures.
Jayvong said PDR closed more than 7,500 cases in 2024: about 5,000 were closed as compliant, and roughly 2,200 as “no violation observed” after inspection. He added that staff abated 193 properties (primarily grass cutting and boarding) and issued 70 demolition permits; 69 were at owner request and one was initiated by…
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