ALL buildings that are open to the public are inspected for safety. If there are code violations they are allowed time to fix the violation, if the violation is not fixed they can be shut down.
This guy was given every opportunity to comply with the codes. He chose not to, and was charged.
It clearly is 100% selective enforcement and I have NO doubt of:
1. Not 10% of Phoenix residences could afford such as "fire sprinkler suppression systems" and
2. Code enforcement does NOT make such requirements and write citations against every person who has more than 12 people at their house.
3. I do not believe city hall can use zoning or code enforcement to eliminate religous or political rights and gathers on the basis of the people being too poor to comply. I am well aware that the Phoenix City government, Republican rightwingers, and many of the middle class white people of this forum, 100% believe a person's legal, civil, political and religous rights are in direct relationship to a person's wealth or lack of it.
I believe that is government corruption, exactly opposite of what is ethical and what is the role of government, and just more of the endless ways the government finds to declare anyone a criminal if they won't behave like they want them too crap.
And I'm not a Christian nor religious person.
The Phoenix city government has $100,000 to get that guy they don't like, but bet they don't have a dollar for the homeless guy down on the corner. Screw the G-people of Phoenix City Hall. Little tyrannts unfortunately given a little power to try to control, harm and terrorize people they personally don't like.
There are hundreds of thousands of prayer groups in homes every week in this country. Essentially ALL mainstream churches also arrange weekly home prayer meetings. As the election approaches, there will be a hundred thousand+ political gatherings of more than 12 people and both political parties have political clubs of more than 12 people meeting in homes every month - and NOT 1/10th of 1% of those have fire sprinkler systems, lighted exit signs, handicap parking signs or any other such BS at their homes.
So all the "HE'S BREAKING THE LAW!" crap is specifically and singularly targeted at him in MASSIVE redundancies of writing as many possible citations as possible over and over plus waves of city hall people raiding his property - because someone on his block knows someone downtown and is using that contact influence to totally trash that guy that he/she personally hates.
The government has conditioned most people now to be sheep, to just chat "but its the law!" as if that is some edict from God that we all must bow down worship. Under that premise and given the billion pages of "the law," we are ALL criminals. Its just a matter of who the government wants to get.
Any of you ever put a nail in a wall to hang a picture? CRIMINAL!!! YOU ARE A CRIMINAL! You did not obtain a building permit! You do not have a building license! You did not POST a building permit. You did NOT pay for an inspection - THAT IS FOUR violations - and Four violations for each and every nail! Most of you should go to jail for life because you are building code VIOLATORS!!! HUNDREDS OF CRIMINAL VIOLATIONS!
But YOU think YOU are exempt, DON'T YOU? To you, that is just BS regulations that YOU don't have to follow. It is criminal in nearly all jurisdictions to put in 1 nail without a building permit. That's THE LAW.
This is just government control and insider contact b....hit and everyone who understands how city halls work understands that. Everyone is a criminal. Its just a matter of who the government doesn't like.