City Council
MEETING DATE: 4/13/2016
TITLE:
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Second Reading and Adoption of Ordinance Amending Various Provisions of the Cathedral City Municipal Code relating to Code Compliance
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FROM:
Eric S. Vail, City Attorney
Nicholas E. Hermsen, Deputy City Attorney
RECOMMENDATION:
Recommendation
Staff recommends the City Council approve the second reading and adoption of Ordinance No. ____ amending various provisions of the Cathedral City Municipal Code relating to Code Compliance, read by title only, and waive further reading.
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BACKGROUND:
The City Council approved the first reading of this Ordinance on April 13, 2016.
As the City Council is aware, the mission of the City's Code Compliance Division is to work toward preventing, discouraging and/or abating certain conditions which endanger the life, limb, health, property, safety or welfare of the general public in a fair, expedient, and cost efficient manner.
The attached ordinance is intended as a general clean-up ordinance and was prepared at the request of the Community Development Director. The ordinance was prepared as a routine update for several reasons, including:
1) To ensure that the City's code compliance procedures and provisions are consistent and current with State law;
2) To ensure that the Municipal Code maximizes the City's ability to effectuate full cost recovery from violators to alleviate the burden on taxpayers;
3) To ensure that the procedures are streamlined in a manner that is most practical and workable for the City's Code Compliance staff while providing abundant due process protection for alleged violators;
4) To ensure that the Municipal Code's code compliance provisions are internally consistent; and
5) To ensure that Code Compliance staff maintains appropriate legal tools in order to operate at maximum effectiveness.
The amendments proposed in the ordinance were proposed by the City Attorney's office, the Community Development Director, the Devel...
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