Code Enforcement - Signifcant Progress effective November 1st.

Councilman Nurse’s proposal is in response to the 2007 cut in code staffing. The goal is to focus code enforcement on the major problems of a neighborhood and away from the Hatfield’s and McCoy’s type petty cases. This will come before the Housing Committee in July. Karl is working with the code enforcement department as they seek to design a system to implement this refocus.

UPDATE - 7/2/08 - This week the codes department is bringing the the City Council "PS&I" committee a proposal to speed the enforcement of yard parking
and junk, trash and debris cleanups. This will allow us to shift staffing to
the serious code cases that drag down our neighborhoods.

Update - 8/5/08 - The codes department will bring to city council a pilot program to use "citations" for yard parking. This will reduce from 4 months
to days to enforce this violation. Currently, it is almost impossible to enforce this portion of the code. This change will allow the shifting of resources to the more difficult and serious violations.

Progress - 10/1/08 - The codes department will implement a "citation" program
for yard parking and snipe signs effective November 1st. The change in yard parking will allow the codes officer to "cite" a vehicle rather than go through a several month process. The current system has made enforcing the yard parking restrictions very labor intentive and ineffective. We hope to issue a small number of citiations and then, the word will get out and folks will stop parking in their front yard.