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Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Creve Coeur May Reinspect Homes, Condos When Owners Change Hands

The city is looking at a program that would mirror what is now being done before apartments are occupied by new owners.

One year after Creve Coeur began requiring re-occupancy inspections of apartments, city building inspectors say they're ready to take on the task of doing the same for Creve Coeur homes and condominiums. But city council members briefed Monday on the proposal say they still have questions about the idea. Read the city staff report on building re-occupancy inspections (starts on page 61) According to Chief Building Inspector Steve Unser, the move to inspect apartments prior to re-occupancy came from incidents in 2011 that saw residents injured in stairways which failed. Unser said his team found 3,000 violations over the course of 1,854 inspections in 2012. The St. Louis Association of Realtors asked the city to start a home re-occupancy …

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Monday, June 6, 2011

Creve Coeur Building Officials Volunteer In Joplin

Burke and Unser describe scenes and stories of devastation, survival.

Joplin was once an easy city to navigate but that all changed late last month. “It was like nothing I’ve ever seen before and hopefully I’ll never see again,” said Steve Unser, chief building official for the City of Creve Coeur, after examining the damage in the southwest Missouri town firsthand last month. “Buildings were literally flattened. All you saw where there once was a building were piles of debris.” Without street signage or landmarks, Unser had to use an aerial map provided by the city just to get his bearings in the alien landscape. His coworker Patrick Burke, Creve Coeur’s commercial building inspector, had a similar experience. “I’ve seen tornado damage here and there but nothing quite like this,” he said. “It looked like a …

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