Reno council unanimously voted Wednesday to direct staff to draft an ordinance with stricter downtown property standards and increase code enforcement.

“This is so long overdue … downtown looks the way it does because we’ve allowed it to,” Mayor Hillary Schieve said during the council meeting. “(But) this could actually be the game changer of the perception that everyone has wanted to see in downtown for a long time.”

Reno currently uses the International Property Maintenance Code as a template, amending it for regional and city needs, according to code enforcement director Lance Ferrato.

The city also developed its own code for downtown in 2014 that includes standards for signage, sidewalks and alleys, lighting, public trash receptacles, night club and bar queue lines, vacant buildin

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