REPORT TO THE CITY COUNCIL
May 12,, 2016
FROM: BRUCE RUDD, City Manager
DOUGLAS SLOAN, City Attorney
SUBJECT
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***BILL NO. B-14 - (Intro. 2/28/2016) (For adoption) - Amending Article 7 of Chapter 10 of the Fresno Municipal Code relating to Management of Real Property.
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RECOMMENDATION
It is recommended the Council adopt the amendment to the Management of Real Property Ordinance.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The proposed amendment will expand the definition of responsible parties to include not only owners, but tenants, occupants, property managers, and home owners' associations (in the case of condominium developments). It will also expand the list of violations that may be considered an unlawful nuisance.
BACKGROUND
Just as the physical conditions of structures and properties within the City can constitute public nuisances, so can too the behavior of persons on properties within the City constitute public nuisances. The abatement of behavioral nuisances is as important to the City in its fight against blight, decay, deterioration and crime as is the abatement of other nuisances created by physical conditions. The purpose of the Management of Real Property Ordinance is to put in place remedies which will permit the City to take effective, efficient administrative or other legal action against responsible parties who permit or suffer nuisance creating behaviors or conditions to occur on properties on a continuing basis, to compel such responsible parties to abate the nuisance creating behaviors or conditions and control the environment, both physical and behavioral, on such properties.
The proposed amendment will expand the definition of responsible parties to include owners, tenants, occupants, property managers, and home owners' associations (in the case of condominium developments). Every responsible party shall be jointly and severally liable for violations of the ordinance.
The proposed amendment will also expand the list of t...
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