Code Compliance
What Is It?
SDCI's Code Compliance division enforces community standards in all neighborhoods. We ensure that all rental housing is registered, code-compliant, and that landlords follow our tenant protection regulations for the renters who make up more than half of Seattle's residents. We also monitor the City’s vacant buildings, enforce zoning regulations, protect trees and environmentally critical areas, verify electrical contractor licensing, and ensure construction work is permitted.
We more than 40,000 complaint line contacts each year. Complaints included issues like:
- Emergency relocation
- Deposit return
- Unlawful evictions
- Housing standards
- Land use violations
- Construction without permits
- Vacant and unfit buildings
- Noise
- Junk storage
- Shoreline
- Tree-cutting
- Tree Service Provider Regulations
- Weed overgrowth
- Code Compliance Services
- 合規檢查服務
- 규정 준수 서비스
- Adeegyada U hogaansanaanta Xeerarka
- Servicios de Cumplimiento del Código
- Ang Code Pagtupad Paglilingkod
- Dịch Vụ Tuân Thủ Bộ Luật
Who We Are
Our staff includes technicians who take in complaints and perform property research, administrative support staff, a property owner and tenant assistance group, inspectors, inspection and compliance support analysts, a legal liaison, a grant manager, and case managers who work with building, electrical, and mechanical violators and property owners.