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West Chester director reports stepped‑up rental‑license enforcement; staff closes backlog
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Building and code director Aaron Flook told the Smart Growth Committee that staff cited 178 late rental‑license renewals, has closed dozens of cases and processes about 5,820 rental licenses; he flagged permit timing, snow complaints and rising noise complaints in student neighborhoods.
Aaron Flook, West Chester’s director of building, housing and code enforcement, told the Smart Growth Committee that staff issued 178 citations for late rental‑license renewals in January and referred those cases to the court system, helping close 39 cases after the citations and more since then. “We process about 5,820 rental licenses,” Flook said, describing the current enforcement effort as focused on the last 2 percent of outstanding renewals.
Flook said staff opened fewer new cases in January — 76 — largely because multiple snow‑shoveling complaints…
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