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Planning staff report large backlog of active code cases and limited demolition funds
Summary
Staff reported active abandoned-property and code-enforcement caseloads by ward and outlined limited remaining demolition funding while seeking HUD reallocations and city equipment to perform more cleanups in-house.
Samantha Graves, a planning department staffer, provided the committee with an updated inventory of active cases and how the department is processing them. She said staff had been closing and reopening cases to address backlog after turnover and that the current counts reflect active cases the department has a file on. For example, Graves reported 264 active cases in Ward 1 and 258 in Ward 2, and cautioned that counts shifted…
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