Accepts complaints and enforces city maintenance codes on private property. Includes complaints about overgrown vegetation, overhanging trees, weeds, debris, junk motor vehicles, excessive storage, general building maintenance, zoning violations, substandard and unsanitary housing conditions (except mold), unsafe, vacant or neglected buildings, illegal peddlers, and illegal signs.

Tucson Code Enforcement Division | Tucson Code Enforcement Division

Programs that enforce the responsibility of property owners to clear hazardous weeds or chaparral from their yards and lots by notifying them when weeds and brush have reached hazardous proportions and performing the work themselves when owners fail to comply.  Charges for the work are placed on the negligent owner's property tax bill.

Weed Abatement/Brush Control

Programs that provide information about local building code requirements, mechanisms for reporting building code violations, access to building code citations, consultations regarding correction of building code violations and a process for appealing building code decisions.

Building Code Enforcement/Appeals

Programs that accept reports regarding abandoned motor vehicles on public roads, in parking lots or on other public property and/or arrange for their removal. Also included are programs that accept and/or act upon reports of violations of local ordinances regarding vehicles stored on private property.

Abandoned Vehicle Reporting/Removal

Programs that provide a hotline, website or other mechanisms that people can use to report accumulations of garbage, castoff materials, junk cars, tall grass, dilapidated buildings or other conditions on public or private property that violate local anti-blight ordinances and impact community health and safety.

Anti Blight Initiatives/Reporting

Responds to environmental and zoning violation complaints in Pima County. Includes complaints regarding air quality (such as emissions coming from a business, burning, and dust), water quality (such as drinking water, industrial discharges, and draining swimming pools), waste (such as loose garbage in residential areas, raw sewage, and removal of demolition projects), and zoning violation (such as weeds, junk vehicles, excessive farm animals, and commercial use in residential zone). Does not handle landlord/tenant disputes, or complaints about bees, mold, or indoor air quality.

Pima County Department of Environmental Quality Complaints Division | Pima County Department of Environmental Quality Complaints Division

Programs that are for responsible researching, establishing, maintaining and overseeing the implementation of general and specific/area plans for land use at regional, county, city and community levels; ensuring an appropriate level of community input during the planning process; regulating the current and future use of public and private lands through the establishment and enforcement of zoning regulations and other land use controls; and reviewing and ruling on requests for zoning alterations and other variances from established land development ordinances.

Land Use Planning and Regulation Services

Programs that establish minimum standards for surface and ground water quality and develop and enforce regulations to prevent or reduce water pollution and assure a reliable supply of healthy drinking water and water that is suitable for other purposes. Water quality assurance programs issue permits specifying the types and amounts of pollutants that may be discharged without violating water quality standards; identify and monitor land uses and activities such as manufacturing or farming that are potential sources of pollution; test, record and report on the quality of water in lakes, rivers, streams, underground aquifers and water supply wells upon which public water systems rely; monitor water treatment and distribution systems; issue warnings and investigate hazards related to contamination; and, when warranted, initiate litigation against individuals and organizations who have failed to comply with water pollution control regulations. These programs may also provide support for the development and oversight of wastewater treatment facilities and certify operators of those facilities. Water quality is generally defined in terms of its designated use, e.g., for drinking, swimming, farming, fish production or industrial processes.

Water Quality Assurance

Programs that establish regulations for the disposal of hazardous waste, issue hazardous waste permits which authorize the treatment of hazardous materials and discharge into the public sewer system; issue licenses for for class one landfills, i.e., those that handle all waste except for nuclear materials; establish standards for abandoned hazardous waste; accept and investigate reports of accidental spills or illegal dumping into the streets, gutters, catch basins, sewers or storm drains; and, where warranted, revoke licenses or permits that have been issued and/or initiate litigation against individuals and organizations who have failed to comply with hazardous waste control regulations.

Hazardous Waste Control

Programs that establish and enforce compliance with emissions standards for factories, industrial plants and other stationary sources of hazardous air pollutants. These programs inspect establishments for compliance with regulations, investigate complaints from the public regarding violations and, when warranted, initiate litigation against individuals and organizations who have failed to comply with pollution control regulations.