John Spartan serves as the senior housing code official for the town of San Angeles, NC, where he recently presided over his 100th minimum housing hearing. He has overseen the repair or removal of many unfit homes over the years, and he is careful to ensure that his town’s minimum housing code keeps up with […]
Posts Tagged ‘code enforcement’
Who is an owner “of record” to be served with complaints and orders under NC minimum housing codes?
Tuesday, June 19th, 2012Targeting Troubled Neighborhoods for Housing Code Inspections
Tuesday, March 20th, 2012Along Broken Dreams Boulevard, not far from Main Street, an abandoned mill overlooks a troubled neighborhood. Once a thriving residential area with inexpensive mill housing (single family homes and duplexes), the neighborhood is now typical of a declining mill village. Many of the dwellings are substandard, owned primarily by absentee landlords who are either unable […]
Building Occupancy and Turning on the Juice
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012My blog from December 15 of last year (“Preoccupied with Occupancy Certificates: Part I”) was intended to provide an introduction to the use of a certificates of occupancy (CO) by local inspections agencies to ensure that a development project is ready for use before it is occupied. This blog concerns the interplay between certificates of […]
Ensuring Local Policy Complies with New Residential Inspections Law
Tuesday, December 20th, 2011The city manager of Tooltime, North Carolina, picks up the phone and calls Tim Taylor, the city’s minimum housing public officer and lead housing inspector. “Tim, I understand why you suspended all periodic inspections in Tooltime that did not comply with the new periodic inspections law. I know we have much less flexibility now than […]