code enforcement

  As I was reading the MyClaySun on Sat. I came across an article that I’m sure most of our county residents will be happy to know about. Our County Commissioners voted to stop the county code enforcement  officers from writing any code violations they see (unless safety) except for ones that they are directly called on. In other words when they go into a neighborhood to check on a code violation at an address that they were called to, if they happen to see  one to ten other violations in the same neighborhood or on the trip to that neighborhood they are not allowed to do anything unless they are safety related. I know a lot of you on this blog complain about wasted taxpayer money, not letting county employees do their job, would this fall into that category?
  I’m sure you are asking why? Is the county short on inspectors, is the county trying to save gas money? No those might make sense we are talking about County Commissioners. It seems when the code enforcement officials were doing their job without being called neighbors were blaming neighbors for calling the inspectors on them, According to Commissioner Doug Conkey this was “tearing neighborhoods apart”. This was followed by Commissioner Chereese Stewart, if a neighbor has something you can’t live with it’s up to you to make that call, if not, mind your own business.
   So before when code enforcement was random and a neighbor could truthfully say they did not call, now the only way code enforcement comes out is if a neighbor calls. Way to go Doug that will make for happy neighborhoods now that there is no doubt neighbor is calling against neighbor. This will also probably make for trashy neighborhoods and lower property values.