I've been doing this job (in different cities) for 25 years. This is only the third time in any community that I've seen anything this bad.

I can't imagine someone walking onto that site and not having red flags go up. Someone missed this big time.

It's supposed to be cold tonight and that would have put an extra load on the electrical system with heaters. It could have been disastrous.

These weren't short-term problems. Some of those violations must have been there for years.

I'm still a bit taken aback.

The program makes cities as competitive for the development dollars as a greenfield community is. If you are trying to end suburban sprawl we really need to invest in these areas but make it easy as possible.