as Kern County been following its leads to reduce code violations?

By Gary Meyer, TME

Does one thing lead to another when it comes to the relationship between substandard neighborhood conditions and crime?

While it may not be officially declared in Kern County, among the good reasons for enforcing code compliance regulations is crime reduction.

We recently obtained all records for the last five years of code compliance cases on two properties in Lebec: an…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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The power cords that the code compliance officers never see, stretched across a public roadway, Circle Drive, on Sunday, July 2, providing power from a business that legally has power to a lot that does not, where people have been reported to be illegally living in RVs.

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This is part of the July 7, 2023 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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