HOUSTON – The City of Houston is revamping its entire inspection process to better deal with the number of complaints regarding derelict residential and commercial properties .

Recently, the city combined inspectors from the Dept. of Neighborhoods and Public Works into one division; Community Code Enforcement.

Prior to this change, Dept. of Neighborhood inspectors handled code violations at residential properties, while Public Works handled commercial properties.

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“If you think about it in Houston, where we have no zoning, every single street has both residential and commercial properties on it,” said Public Works Dir. Randy Macchi. “We needed to make sure that we were combining our forces, using ou

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