CHARLOTTE – The Mecklenburg County code enforcement department updated the Board of County Commissioners at its meeting Thursday night on efforts to address inspection and permitting process problems, but some commissioners said the department’s progress was moving along too slowly. ...

Tagged with: code enforcement Dena Diorio Dumont Clarke Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi George Dunlap Matthew Ridenhour Mecklenburg Board of County Commissioners

A consultant hired to evaluate building permit and inspection procedures within Mecklenburg County is recommending that a committee be formed to ensure consistency in the application of building standards. The committee would be made up of leaders in the managers’ ...

Tagged with: Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement

The economic recovery of the last few years has enabled a construction boom around Charlotte, but both contractors and the county department that inspects their projects are finding some qualified workers hard to come by. Under the Mecklenburg County budget ...

Tagged with: Associated General Contractors of America Bill Stricker Carolinas AGC Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi

CHARLOTTE – The Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement agency does a good job reviewing building plans, issuing building permits and inspecting construction projects. But it also doesn’t. Two sets of customer feedback – from contractors, developers, architects, engineers and others who ...

Tagged with: Building Development Commission Dena Diorio Ebenezer Gujjarlapudi Mecklenburg County Code Enforcement

CHARLOTTE –Mecklenburg County manager Dena Diorio is hiring a consultant to assist in her office’s review of county code enforcement’s operations and quality-control systems. That was one of four developments announced last week in an update on Diorio’s effort to ...

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