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Revere inspectional services reports dozens of violations; board provisionally approves a chicken-keeping license
Summary
Inspectional Services reported dozens to hundreds of enforcement actions in June across housing, food, and exterior sanitation divisions; the Board provisionally approved a chicken-keeping license for Anna Bario of 135 Washington Ave, contingent on continued compliance.
Michael Wells, director of inspectional services, presented the department’s monthly enforcement and inspection totals for June and described several categories of violations and reinspection counts.
Wells reported 52 certificates of fitness issued for interior housing and 30 reinspections in that division. In the food-inspection division, Wells said there were 28 routine inspections, four reinspections, three complaint inspections, two pre-opening inspections and 35 temporary-food inspections. For exterior sanitation, Wells reported 369 trash violations, 26 violations for overflowing dumpsters, 19 violations for junk heaps/dumps and automobile graveyards, five violations for multiple unregistered vehicles on property, and 365 violations for unclean or unsanitary land (overgrowth).
After the inspectional report, the board considered a provisional chicken-keeping license application submitted by Anna Bario for a property at 135 Washington Ave. Lauren Buck told the board the coop and run are not yet fully constructed but that today’s inspection passed provisionally with the expectation of continued oversight. Buck asked the board to approve the license to allow the applicant to begin construction and the purchasing process; the board voted 3–0 to approve.
The board did not attach additional conditions on the public record beyond continued communication and inspectional oversight. Staff indicated they will stay in regular contact with the applicant to ensure building and operations comply with applicable regulations.
The inspection totals and the license approval were recorded in the meeting minutes; no fines or enforcement timelines beyond standard reinspection processes were specified on the record.
