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Toledo officials outline enforcement plan, timeline for amended ‘Lehi Safe’ lead ordinance
Summary
City housing officials described amended Lehi Safe ordinance changes, enforcement responsibilities moved to the Department of Housing and Community Development, phased compliance dates and funding sources for abatement during an April 9 committee presentation.
Toledo housing officials told the City Council’s Housing and Community Development Committee on April 9 that the city is prepared to resume enforcement of its Lehi Safe lead ordinance after legal challenges that paused implementation.
“Every ZIP code in the city of Toledo is high risk,” Rosalyn Clemons, director of the Department of Housing and Community Development for the City of Toledo, said during the presentation. “85% of our homes were built before 1980.”
Clemons and Tammy LaViolette, a senior attorney in the city law department, said the draft amendments move core certification and inspection functions from the health department into the Department of Housing and Community Development, an administrative change city staff say should reduce future legal vulnerability and centralize enforcement.
LaViolette described the principal change as transferring “the functions that were previously to be performed by the health department” so the city itself issues certificates and oversees local inspectors. Under the draft, the director of housing would be able to reject or bar an inspector’s certificate…
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