Jim Bartl has a chart for that. As Mecklenburg County's director of Code Enforcement, this rumpled, professorial 63-year-old is arguably the most powerful man in Charlotte-area building design and construction.
“We were seeing an increase in permits, inspection requests and hours demanded of our inspectors. So I told them that we needed to be prepared for the increase in construction activity now and also into the new year," said James Bartl, head of the county’s building code enforcement department.
CHARLOTTE – Attention those who are tired of hand-delivering documents to Mecklenburg County’s code enforcement department: A new system, which is now live, that allows documents to be submitted via the Internet might make your lives easier. Patrick Granson, the county’s director of plan review and permitting, said that, as of Monday, secondary documents that [...]
In late July, Jim Bartl knew the Democratic National Convention would impact Mecklenburg County's code inspection department.
The question was: By how much?
The Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement Department announced that they are making several changes to the way the department notifies customers about inspections.