GREENSBORO, N.C. — When there's something weird in your neighborhood-- who are you going to call?
No, it's not the ghostbusters but Greensboro Code Enforcement.
The City’s Code Compliance Division is hosting its second “Code Academy” on May 29 to talk with residents about what its inspectors are responsible for and what they aren’t, and to explain the importance of knowing a little bit about Greensboro’s Code of Ordinances.
Greensboro City Code Compliance manager says these meetings bring public concerns to the forefront.
"The benefit to our Code Academy is the information it provides because it educates you on when to call us when to call GPD because we kind of break it down for you on what falls where," Roberts said.
The meeting began at 10 am Wednesday, May 29, at the Smith Active Adult Center located at 2401 Fairview St.
Code Compliance inspectors discussed what the City’s housing code and nuisance code cover and how infractions are addressed for each.
According to Code Compliance Manager Larry Roberts, with the Housing and Neighborhood Development Department (HND), his office gets many calls daily about issues such as excess noise, alleged zoning infractions, and oversized vehicles parked in residential areas.
We spoke with a resident after the meeting. They shared how they learned the limit to certain city codes.
"I also learned some things about spaces as far as this goes to Zoning and this goes to Greensboro Police Department. I had heard that the Police Department handles certain things and Code handles certain things but had no idea that you've got a three-day limit like on a tractor trailer," said Cecilia Shaw, a Southeast Greensboro resident.
A main concern of Shaw's is tractor trailers parking in her neighborhood. According to city code compliance there is a three-day limit like she mentioned--but Shaw says the issue has been happening for some time now.
Shaw says what was once a quiet rolling up and down hill in part of town has turned into quite the nuisance.
"Because where I live in Southeast Greensboro what is happening now is we are on Interstate 73 and I-40 and I-85. We live within a giant circle of interstate highways and not only that you've got a lot of those giant size warehouses that are coming in there. I am a mile away from UPS that's there and we are constantly seeing more and more traffic that's happening there," Shaw said.
The city code compliance wants to continue to have meetings across Greensboro helping to inform residents. The previous meeting took place in November. Wednesday's meeting was in District 2; the city plans on visiting every district this year.
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