I had a very different experience. My citation included notes from the inspector, explicit details on how to contact the inspector and appeal the citation, reasonable telephone calls with the inspector and the inspections office, and a followup visit from the inspector to reconsider the reason for the citation that included more notes and photos.
Perhaps consistency in application of the inspections process would be a nice refresher course for the inspection team. Regards, Jason Stone | Hale --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Here's the deal, friends - and I'm not even a big conspiracy theorist, but > they've got me going this time... This is what I have learned about how > Inspections operates: > > First, they "sweep" the area. We're not talking about complaints here. > Nope, no brooms either. This "sweep" means they drive by...maybe. They stay in > the car and jot down the address of their targets. They enter the target > addresses into something that generates form letters which seem to be timed to > arrive in citizen mailboxes on Friday afternoons. Before holidays seems to be > best. But here's the good part: they don't document anything about the > offender's property problem. No notes on some kind of form, no photos. That's > right: > no notes, no photos. In fact with mine, the inspector said that with 5000 > notices going out in that sweep (5000!!!) she couldn't be sure that mine was in > fact an offending address; it might be a mistake, but, hey, who's to know. The > alleged offence is "NOT APPEALABLE TO THE MINNEAPOLIS HOUSING BOARD OF > APPEALS" according to the notice. However, properties that persist in offending > will > get a visit from the Mpls. All-Star Mowing Enforcers and the bill will be > added to the property tax bill for that address. > > Now I'm not a super-suspicious kinda gal - I'm such a geeky good government > booster - but I gotta wonder about this stuff: drive-by inspections, > loosey-goosey details, no notes, no photos, no documentation, no appeals BUT the > very > real (and arbitrary) risk of substantial additions to my property tax bill. > And all this when the City is struggling to make ends meet. > > Maybe I'm just feeling a bit put out, but really! First, my (alleged) 8" > grass (blades, I admit) and then MacDonald's over-30" handrail. Come on, City! > This is how you're spending property tax dollars? > > This is like being stoned to death with popcorn. > > Ms. Berget/Kingfield > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. 2. If you don't like what's being discussed here, don't complain - change the subject (Mpls-specific, of course.) ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
