(CBS 11 News) DALLAS A new proposal at Dallas City Hall could mean cleaner neighborhoods. The plan would put code enforcement officers at police substations, and shorten the current response time to complaints.

Neighbors say one house in northwest Dallas consistently has a truck in the yard, and it's common throughout the city to see cars parked illegally? facing the wrong direction on a street.

The parking situations are both blatant violations of Dallas city ordinances, yet activist Sharon Boyd says tickets are rarely written.

?It's a traffic hazard. It's a city ordinance. We either have?. enforce the laws or take them off the books for all of us.?

Council member Steve Salazar represents District 6, and acknowledges there is a problem, but also says he has a solution.

Salazar is proposing giving a new home to code enforcement officers. Currently most start their day in west Dallas, and then drive to various parts of the city to check on violations.

The councilman says it makes a lot more sense to place code enforcers at police substations located in the neighborhoods.

?We have the location. We are already paying utilities; it?s just a matter of getting them the space. I think that?s something that even some of the chiefs have said, that they wouldn?t mind having some code inspectors on the premises to kind of help the officers when they go out to locate to calls. If it?s not a crime being committed, but there?s a code violation, obviously a code inspector could be a useful person to have at that situation,? Salazar said.

Farmers Branch recently passed an ordinance making it against the law to have more than five cars parked in front of one house. Boyd says the same problem plagues areas of the city, and Dallas city leaders should consider a similar ordinance.

The Dallas City Council is currently on summer break, but in August Salazar?s? plan will be considered, and he says the group will look at the possibility of restricting the number of cars parked at a single home.