• Code Enforcement

    Code Enforcement issues in Castleberry Hill are to reported to this sub-committee. If there are questions pertaining to reporting code enforcement or general questions please direct them here.

    Refer to contact page for chair information and calendar for meeting dates/times

    Important Links & Contacts:

    HAND BILLS/FLIERS ON CARS & POSTERS:

    • Take a picture of the poster on the pole, etc., or pictures of fliers on cars and send to Gayla Dodson – GDodson@atlantaga.gov in Public Works along with the name, phone number and address of the establishment the material is for. He will also need exact street addresses for each photograph, as that information also goes on the citation.  If there are 20 posters on poles, for example, you should take 20 photos and send them in with 20 addresses.  He can then write 20 citations to the same person if the name, address, etc., are available to him.  He will write the citation to call them into court.
    • The neighborhoods do the work, Public Works writes the citations and Code Enforcement follows them in court.  You can attend the Housing Court sessions to see them get fined if you want, it can be quite satisfying!  This works and the offenders will quit doing it once they are fined.
    • Use your judgment about removing the material after you photograph it, but be careful not to get into an altercation with whomever put it up. You can’t hold the printer of the cards responsible because it is not illegal to print signs and cards.  However, it would be a good idea to speak with him/her and let them know your plans so they can warn their customers about placing the signs/cards illegally. If police see the person placing the signs/cards, they can arrest them on the spot.  Most of them work in the middle of the night.

    GRAFFITI:

    The Code Enforcement committee and Executive Board of the CHNA has determined that many properties in the neighborhood are violating City of Atlanta Code. Graffiti, weeds and dumping has increased in the last 6 months. Un-kept neighborhoods and cities are havens for criminals. The book “The Tipping Point” by Malcolm Gladwell illustrates this point on the rise and fall of New York City. New York saw rapid declines in crime due to small but influential changes in the city environment. To reverse trends in crime, city officials started focusing on small things like graffiti, subway toll skippers and public acts of degeneracy. In keeping in this same context, many properties in Castleberry Hill will be reported to the Code Compliance office for similar violations. We ask that you do your part by removing graffiti from your building, pulling weeds on your property and cleaning up your property (up to and including the sidewalk and curb).By showing we care and taking care of our neighborhood we can send a message to criminals that we will not stand for their actions. Help us set an example for the entire city.

    • We invite you to join the CHNA Google Group to stay updated on code and safety issues.Another crucial aspect of the complex processes and mechanisms that cause trends to “tip” into mass popularity is what Gladwell terms the Power of Context. If the environment or historical moment in which a trend is introduced is not right, it is not as likely that the tipping point will be attained. To illustrate the power of context, Gladwell takes on the strangely rapid decline in violent crime rates that occurred in the 1990s in New York City.Although Gladwell acknowledges that a wide variety of complex factors and variables likely played a role in sparking the decline, he argues convincingly that it was a few small but influential changes in the environment of the city that allowed these factors to tip into a major reduction in crime. He cites the fact that a number of New York City agencies began to make decisions based on the Broken Windows theory, which held that minor, unchecked signs of deterioration in a neighborhood or community could, over time, result in major declines in the quality of living.To reverse these trends, city authorities started focusing on seemingly small goals like painting over graffiti, cracking down on subway toll skippers, and dissuading public acts of degeneracy. Gladwell contends that these changes in the environment allowed the other factors, like the decline in crack cocaine use and the aging of the population, to gradually tip into a major decline in the crime rate in the city.
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