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Garden City considers expanded fire inspections for multifamily rentals after repeated hazards found
Summary
Fire and building officials recommended inspecting multifamily rental buildings under a fire‑safety scope distinct from the city’s three‑year single‑family rental inspections. Councilmembers asked for fee estimates, ordinance changes needed and a breakdown of potential costs.
City Manager Gibbons and Fire Chief Keen presented options Nov. 3 for expanding fire inspections of rental housing in Garden City, focusing on multifamily buildings and life‑safety systems not captured in the three‑year single‑family rental inspection program.
"A 100 and, in 5 years of checking, rentals, we discovered 1,844 missing bedroom smoke alarms," City Manager Gibbons told the council, adding that about "90.6 percent of those have been corrected." Gibbons…
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