The Emporia City Commission discussed potential updates to its property maintenance codes during its study session Wednesday morning. Chief building inspector Kory Krause reported to the commission that in recent years the Code Services Department had received an increasing number of complaints regarding poor living conditions in rental properties. However, the city’s current property codes are limited and seriously restrict what can be enforced, leaving the city with very few options for how it can assist its citizen renters. “The extent of our current interior maintenance codes allows inspection to only look at five sections or eight items,” he said. “This is the extent of Emporia’s minimum housing code and violations that we can address. These are, at best, very minimal violation concerns and only represent a small portion of issues.”
Source: Emporia Gazette
