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Is this an actual issue? your home should not be so bad that its violating city code. If it is you should be getting a blight notification.
Having the city to under resourced to notice and take action doesnt change that this is a negative thing. The only angle I can see bad about this is false notices going out or increasing the work load for city council workers sifting through all the new reports.
Yeah, let's just unleash completely unreliable tech to punish people for shit that the city isn't even willing to fund enforcement of!
Human review isn't doing shit to avoid the inherent problem with the system. This is just the new version of red light cameras, which are also unreliable and incentivize punitive fines.
Red light cameras are fine. If the person as an issue with the official city complaint they can take the city to court.
As for the real estate agent they are likely full of shit given the article didnt post their photo. Plus ive seen what they try and claim as damage they have no trust. This article is low quality trash.
Thats the same logic when minorities are unfairly bothered by cops. A lot of people dont have the resources to fight the system especially for minor fines. But it is unfair for them to lose time and money fighting something that they shouldnt have been charged. Its the opposite of how an effective justice system works.
By that logic dont enforce any laws because some enforcement might be grey and people dont have the resources to make their case.
Thats dumb this is a non issue. You are suggesting we throw out the entire process improvement because it might be wrong and a council worker might not check before issuing the notice then the home owner might be unable to respond to the violation notices.
"If you arent breaking the law, you have nothing to hide"
You can't hide the front of your house from the street
What if you live underground?
city code is frequently idiotic as written but so infrequently enforced that nobody complains
Ok so either change it or the city officials will ignore all but the worst violations. Both irrelevant to the technology.
As per the summary part of the post, it's talking about a "blight" score and HOA (Home Owners Associations).
No its talking about giving each house a blight score similar to an HOA. The city council already has guidelines and this blight score is data to help. This isnt like an HOA where you get fined for having a bin on the front of house.
Yes, as already demonstrated, cameras everywhere reporting “violations” are always accurate and never abused, totally contestable and the local council is always reasonable about them.
How is this going to be "abused" the responsibility remains on the person at the council issuing the violation they can see the photo before filing. They are contestable the same as any other property violation.