Is there someone I can call about this?

[sgray]

I've found the inspectors VERY LAX and usually give MULTIPLE BREAKS before even writing up anything, even after you get wrote up, they still give months if not years before they actually truly enforce things.

I've got my releases in writing. I have noticed that they are more lax on things like lawn stuff versus code violations on like buildings and stuff.

Even if they go to court over it, nothing usually happens, no fines, so you and Luke are really getting upset over nothing.

See below. We should have a law that fines citizens for making false reports. And if somebody takes me to court and loses because an issue doesn't exist, I'm gonna haul their a** right back in to court and sue them for all the trouble they are stirring up.

The only time they enforce something is if 2-3 complains on grass over 1 foot high in at least 90 days time or more, then city crews will come mow and charge the bill to the owner, that's about as far as I've seen it, and I've been reporting issues for years. I find the people who the law is for, are the ones who don't want to talk to their neighbor anyways, and won't do anything about it even if you do talk to them!

What about people calling the city when the grass reaches 2 inches??? The laws are for everyone, and I have never refused to talk to my neighbors. And every neighbor I have ever had to talk to has been receptive and has never led to calls to the city except for my little trouble-maker at present.

sgray, it's really not that hard to keep debris out of your yard and your grass mowed once a month or so to avoid it getting more than a foot tall, that's the basic ordinances. Come on, don't tell me you or anyone can't do that or find a charity or church that would do it for them.

Notice that my last post was directly related to the insane level of "spaz" in our community that are tying up resources and costing us more money for issues that do not exist. In addition, by the time the city actually finds that no issue exists, we not only have personnel, paper, and fuel expense wasted, but at least 3-4 "update letters" (postage-paid by our tax dollars for each letter) being sent to these "spaz" citizens, who are constantly calling the city...NOT because a violation exists, but because they want YOUR property maintained THEIR way.

It has gotten so bad that I have witnessed inspectors using "choice words" referring to my neighbor while standing on my property. And that's just my neighbor alone. I've asked several of them and they claim that they spend most of their time chasing down reported violations that simply don't exist. That's the problem and I'm sick and tired of my tax dollars getting wasted by people who sit at home making a career of repeatedly calling the same baseless claims into the city after the city has repeatedly told them that they are wrong!