Springfield City Council heard public input this week about a proposed pilot residential license and inspection program for rental properties.
The 18-month pilot would focus on the West Central Neighborhood Service District. That’s because the area has a high number of rental properties and numerous blighted and nuisance cases, and the average age of structures is 102 years.
Every rental unit under the program would be inspected once every five years. In the initial pilot, all 1,541 units would be inspected in the first year…