Building Development Services News Today

Springfield city building inspectors say they are monitoring situation at Jenny Lind Hall affordable housing apartments where both elevators that serve the six-story building are inoperable, leaving disabled residents on higher floors with no access to the ground level other than stairs.

Vacant houses are a serious issue in Springfield, serious enough that city leaders will travel all the way to Texas for a conference on formulating a plan to fight the problem.

Springfields Building Development Services processed 17,803 nuisance-related code enforcement cases between January 2015 and December 2021.

Renters say their problems include exposed wires, holes in the floor and a broken sewer pipe.

If you are driving around Springfield this fall and notice some new construction, theres a good chance its apartments.

Political signs are allowed on private property with the permission of the property owner, but not in public rights-of-way.

In total, the Springfield Police Department has more than half-a-million dollars budgeted for gas for the upcoming fiscal year.

Officials with the Municipality of Chatham-Kent say more streets have reopened and the emergency site reduction is complete in Wheatley.

More Wheatley residents and business owners will be able to access their properties Monday as the emergency site has been further reduced, nine months after the downtown explosion.

A man has been arrested and another remains at large in relation to a maquinitas...