One city housing inspector reported that he found no code violations.
He said the city was planning on taking over the building because of code violations.
"It's there to remove code violations or replace one building system."
The city's litigation against him for code violations dates to 1984.
We would also like to see a higher penalty level for code violations.
The city immediately slapped some code violations on the old church building.
He has refused to comment to reporters about possible code violations.
He said there had been building code violations at the site.
The receiver did some repairs and got the number of code violations below 10,000.
His buildings have hundreds of code violations, say city housing officials.