Santa Clarita's Collaborative Approach Overcomes Code Enforcement Challenges

摘要

The City of Santa Clarita took a bold step in partnership with the community to help proactively resolve neighborhood code enforcement and safety issues by developing a program called the Extreme Neighborhood Makeover. The program assists individual property owners with challenges they face in complying with the law and helps maximize residential property values, and it has succeeded in achieving big results with a very modest cost. The economic downturn affected Santa Clarita (population 180,000) profoundly and created a series of related property maintenance issues. In Santa Clarita, aging neighborhoods and an increase in foreclosures resulted in numerous complaints to the city about deteriorating properties.