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Irving building commission closes cases, sets demolition deadlines and civil penalties for unsafe properties
Summary
At its Jan. 28 meeting the City of Irving Building and Standards Commission approved staff recommendations to close some cases, ordered owners to repair or demolish multiple substandard properties by spring deadlines, and authorized penalties and, if necessary, city-conducted demolitions.
The City of Irving Building and Standards Commission on Jan. 28, 2026 approved staff recommendations that close some enforcement cases, set deadlines for repairs or demolition on several properties and authorized civil penalties where owners have not complied.
Blake Peoples, building programs coordinator, presented multiple cases and asked the commission to adopt staff recommendations. For one longstanding fire-damaged property on Oakland Drive, Julia Cuellar, code enforcement specialist, told the commission that staff found seven outstanding violations and requested civil penalties of $10 per violation per day from Sept. 25, 2025, through Jan. 28, 2026 — "a total of $8,820 for failure to comply with the commission's 04/23/2025 order," she said. The commission voted to adopt staff…
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