Virginia Headlines
AOBA Joins in Litigation Against Fairfax City Rental Inspection Program
AOBA has joined with several other Northern Virginia real estate organizations in litigation challenging the validity of a rental inspection ordinance recently adopted by the Fairfax City Council. In 2005, the city’s rental inspection ordinance was allowed to expire, after legislation supported by AOBA required that jurisdictions adopt rental inspection districts confined to areas where inspections are necessary to maintain safe, decent and sanitary living conditions. Not only did the city fail to provide data justifying the districts, but the districts drawn by the ordinance cover the entire city. Clearly, it would be quite a stretch to suggest that Fairfax is in a blighted or uninhabitable condition. Nevertheless, the City Council chose to proceed with the staff proposal to divide the city into two districts which comprise the entire jurisdiction.
