City of Champaign Invites Stakeholder Input on Development, Permitting, and Inspection Processes
The City of Champaign is engaged in a comprehensive assessment of the City’s development review, permitting, and inspection processes. The City has hired Matrix Consultants to evaluate current processes and gather suggestions and feedback from the development community concerning these City services. Interested stakeholders are invited to attend a focus group next week to share […]
2022 Code Compliance Mid-Year Update
The Code Compliance Division of the Neighborhood Services Department handles several different types of cases. The three most generated case types are tenant inspection cases, housing inspection cases, and nuisance cases. The tenant inspection cases are interior inspections of residential properties that are occupied by tenants. The housing inspection cases include exterior housing inspections, fire […]
Code Compliance Division Resumes Additional Code Inspections
The Code Compliance Division has added additional inspections types beginning June 15, 2020.These additional inspection types include housing and nuisance cases. Examples of housing cases that will now be addressed are interior tenant inspection requests, exterior housing complaints, and vacant structure cases. Some examples of nuisance cases that will now be addressed are inoperable vehicles, […]
City of Champaign Announces Additional Suspensions to Services
Today, the City of Champaign announced additional service changes to promote social distancing and to proactively support the prevention and management of COVID-19. Changes are temporary, and an announcement will be made once the City is able to return to normal business. The Code Compliance Division (Neighborhood Services) is suspending all inspections except for cases […]
Building Safety Division Experiences Another Record Year
Building Safety Division Experiences Another Record Year The City of Champaign’s Building Safety Division experienced a busy 2016, with over $219 million dollars in construction valuation, the third highest in the City of Champaign’s history. In 2016 Building Safety performed a total of 9,580 inspections and issued 2,945 permits, including 143 new one and two-family […]
Certified Housing Inspections
The annual Certified Housing Inspections started on September 2, 2014. Property Maintenance Inspectors Mike Lambert and Tim Spear have completed inspections in 16 of the 54 facilities as of September 12, 2014. The facilities that are inspected in the first two weeks of the program are facilities that had the highest amount of violations in […]