City Code

While the city code puts EMD in charge of coordinating disaster recovery, it operates with fewer resources than similar departments in other large California cities.

The Yucaipa City Code Enforcement team red-tagged several buildings, including a trailer, on the property.

In recent years, city code and building inspectors have found faulty fire-safety systems and elevators inoperable for months at a time, effectively trapping many elderly and disabled residents inside.

Council members are the only officials with the authority to remove the city attorney, according to the Baldwin Park city code.

Fearing what they called a humanitarian crisis, the city agreed to pay nearly $40 million to finance the receivership, during which more than 800 city code and habitability citations were fixed per recent court filings.