Rental-housing inspections upstaged 751 South at the City Council's meeting Monday night.
Council members took only four minutes to reject, 6-0, Southern Durham Development's request for a city water and sewer extension to its controversial subdivision.
That vote, though, came only after an hour and 55 minutes of comments, questions and discussion on the proposed Proactive Rental Inspections Program – resulting in a decision to talk about it some more two weeks from now.
A "Proactive Rental Inspection Program" for Durham is on the City Council's work session agenda Thursday. The proposal switches housing-code inspections of rental property to a systematic regimen instead of the past practice of inspecting only when someone complains.
The program, according to Housing Code Administrator Rick Hester, is intended to motivate property owners to keep their houses and apartments up to code or get extra attention and expense from City Hall.
Read more about the program in Wednesday's Durham News. Links to some program documents are here:
