Chapter 4 City codes for sale

In chapter three of Dearborn's policy driven slide of Building codes/ordinances, the story of a new house owner on Sheridan across the street from the Dearborn Country Club was left with serious code violations throughout the house that passed city inspections with flying colors. The continuation of the game pay to play was visited shorty after in the late 1990s when Jerry Builder/Developer Sam Arabo built a number of residential houses in south Dearborn. Like the single house on Sheridan street, these houses also passed city building inspections with flying colors, despite a major structural flaw. The super-structure of these buildings did  not match the foundation of the basement walls. Standing in the basement, one could see clearly a separation between the upper level and the basement and the light of day  outside. Ii's very difficult to believe  that this was a simple oversight, and didn't get approval from high above.  Add to this cheap selling of City standards, these houses were built with only as single door in the front of the house; no back door, made possible by state law. It seems that the business favoring state legislature passed a law that allowed a single door in the houses so long as a back window was large enough to accommodate the need of emergency exiting. These state yokels never considered the matter of physically challenged people, or grandma or grandpa trying to navigate through a window during an emergency. Stayed tuned to the next chapter of your city standards in decline over a twenty year period.   P3