Springfield’s neighborhoods could soon be seeing some help in addressing nuisance properties.
On Tuesday, the city’s director of the department handling weed, trash and dangerous building complaints proposed doubling the number of inspectors and staff available to address a long-discussed issue.
Currently, the city has five inspectors stationed throughout the city who field and address complaints about weeds, overgrowth and trash.
Dwayne Shmel, the recently hired Building and Development Services director, said he wanted the council to approve adding one additional inspector as well as two patrolling code compliance officers and one citywide code compliance officer to oversee trash clean-ups.