Building Services

Code Compliance

Phone: (510) 238-3381

Code Compliance provides the following services related to housing, zoning and building codes:

• Inspection and response to complaints of violations, deficiencies, or other problems relating to the Oakland Housing Code (unsafe or unsanitary buildings that jeopardize the health and/or safety of the occupants or the neighborhood).
• Responses to zoning complaints alleging violations of the Zoning Regulations (e.g. illegal multi-family occupancy in a one-family zone, salvage yards, billboards, and businesses in residential zones).
• Investigation of public nuisance structures or conditions (graffiti, environmental conditions, or substandard buildings which are causing a blight upon the neighborhood).
• Inspections of additions, alterations, or repairs performed without the benefit of a permit.
• Enforcement of abatement conditions.
• Blighted Properties