The Residential and Commercial Complaint and Referral division investigates code violations on existing commercial buildings, hotels, motels, and single-family residential buildings.

As a part of our effort to reduce visual blight in the City, this Division is comprised of three units:

• General Sign Code Enforcement
• Inspection of New Sign Construction
• Off-Site Sign Periodic Inspection Program (OSSPIP)

The Citations Unit issues citations primarily on transient types of violations such as open air vending on private property, a variety of zoning violations, noise violation from air conditioning, refrigeration, heat pumping, filtering equipment and nuisance lighting violations.

This Division operates full-time on a pro-active or survey basis. Our Community Development Block Grant (CDBG)-funded teams target specific code enforcement problems in limited geographic regions of the City. Our PACE teams work very closely with a number of other City agencies and the Office of the City Attorney.

The Annual Inspection Monitoring (AIM) Division conducts a fee-supported program, annually inspecting all auto repair garages (including smog test shops, window tinting and replacement shops, vinyl or similar covering materials, installation of parts/accessories and all similar uses) used vehicle sales areas, auto dismantling yards, junk yards, scrap metal or recycling materials processing yards, recycling collection and/or buyback centers, recycling materials sorting facilities and cargo container storage yards for violations of both building and land use ordinances.