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Code Enforcement Update: Staff Describes Modernized Procedures, High Compliance and Outreach Plans
Summary
Brooke Svoboda, the city’s code enforcement director, updated council on March 17 about procedural changes intended to improve voluntary compliance, reduce repeat violators and coordinate assistance for residents who need help complying with property standards.
Brooke Svoboda, director overseeing code enforcement, gave council a detailed briefing on March 17 about how the city’s code‑enforcement program has changed and where staff see remaining issues.
Svoboda described a multi‑year shift away from an earlier “clean sweep” approach — which had produced community pushback — toward a process that emphasizes voluntary compliance, clearer and consistent code language, streamlined abatement hearings and stronger coordination with other departments and community partners. Staff said they updated abatement procedures to ensure due process, instituted a mechanism to secure standing court orders for chronic violators and decriminalized nuisance chapter violations (except for land‑use provisions that require other legal handling).
Svoboda said the department aims to secure voluntary compliance in most cases and uses court action…
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