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Reno council orders update to property-maintenance code as downtown enforcement debate intensifies
Summary
City staff will draft an ordinance to adopt the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code and tighten downtown standards after council discussion about proactive enforcement, administrative fines and resources for code officers.
City staff will return with an ordinance to update the Reno Municipal Code to the 2024 International Property Maintenance Code after a lengthy council discussion about enforcement capacity and downtown blight.
Lance Farratto, director of licensing and code enforcement, recommended that council direct staff to amend RMC Chapter 14.05 to reference the 2024 IPMC and to fine-tune the “downtown standards” adopted in 2014. "The international property maintenance code ... sets minimum standards for maintaining existing structures," Farratto said, explaining the…
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