Lynchburg, VA Rental Inspections: Inspection Programs (2026)

City council designated six rental inspection districts under Sec. 00, 6, 7, 11 and 19 from the 2010 Census, an area running roughly from the eastern city line northwest along the James River to the Norfolk Southern tracks near Riverside Park, then along Blackwater Creek and a corridor of streets including Page Street, Tate Springs Road, Langhorne Road, Memorial Avenue, Fort Avenue, Rutherford Street, Craighill Street and Edley Place back to the corporate limits. Council can also add an individual unit outside those tracts if it makes a separate finding that the property is blighted, deteriorating, or has code violations affecting safe, decent and sanitary conditions.

Inside the districts, Sec. 11-166 requires the building maintenance official to run periodic inspections, capped at no more than once per calendar year for the same property. For a multifamily development with more than ten units, the inspections division inspects only a sample of not less than two and not more than ten percent of the units; if that sample turns up code violations affecting safe, decent and sanitary living conditions, the division can then inspect as many units as necessary. A unit or development that passes with no violations earns an exemption from further inspection for four years under Sec.

11-166(g), and a unit issued a certificate of occupancy in the last four years gets the same four-year exemption automatically; a sale of the property lets the inspections division schedule a fresh inspection regardless. Inspection fees are set by city council resolution and kept on file at the inspections division under Sec. 11-167, and multifamily developments are not charged for more than ten units absent violations.