HomeMy WebLinkAbout2000-56 - Weed Abatement• RESOLUTION NO. 2000- 56
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH DECLARING THAT
WEEDS AND OTHER PUBLIC NUISANCES EXIST
UPON STREETS, ALLEYS, SIDEWALKS, PARKWAYS,
AND PRIVATE PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY,
DECLARING THAT SAID WEEDS AND PUBLIC
NUISANCES MUST BE ABATED, SETTING THE TIME
AND PLACE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING AT WHICH
THE CITY COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER PROTESTS
FROM PERSONS OBJECTING TO THE PROPOSED
DESTRUCTION OR REMOVAL OF SUCH PUBLIC
NUISANCES BY THE CITY AND DIRECTING THE
FIRE CHIEF TO GIVE NOTICE OF THE PASSAGE OF
THIS RESOLUTION AND OF THE PUBLIC HEARING
SET FOR AUGUST 8, 2000.
WHEREAS, it has come to the attention of the City Council that the following
conditions exist upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, parkways, and private property within
the City as shown, described, and delineated on several maps of the properties in the
• City which are recorded in the Office of the County Recorder for the County of
Orange:
(A) Weeds are growing which, when mature, bear winged or downy seeds,
which will attain such a large growth as to become a fire menace when dry, or which
are otherwise noxious or dangerous;
(B) Dry grass, stubble, brush, garden refuse, litter or other flammable
material which constitutes a fire hazard or which, when dry, will in reasonable
probability constitute a menace to the public health;
(C) Poison oak and poison ivy which constitute a menace to the public
health;
(D) Rubbish, refuse, and dirt upon parkways and sidewalks, and rubbish
and refuse upon private property; and
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• WHEREAS, in the judgment of the City Council, said conditions constitute a
public nuisance and should be abated as such pursuant to the provisions of Chapter
10.48 of the Newport Beach Municipal Code.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
Section 1. The City Council hereby determines and declares that the weeds
and other conditions described above which exist upon the streets, alleys, sidewalks,
parkways, and private property within the City are a public nuisance.
Section 2. Said public nuisances must be abated by the destruction or
removal thereof, and all owners of property on which such public nuisances exist or
which abuts public streets or sidewalks on which such public nuisances exist shall,
without delay, destroy or remove all such public nuisances or such work will be done
• by the City, in which case the cost of such work will be assessed upon the lands from
which, and /or in the front and rear of which, such nuisances shall have been
destroyed or removed.
Section 3. The City Council does hereby set the 8th day of August 2000, at
7:00 p.m., as the time and the Council Chambers in the City Hall of the City of
Newport Beach as the place, for hearing objections and protests to the proposed
abatement of such nuisances.
Section 4. The Fire Chief is hereby directed to give notice to the passage of
this Resolution of the Council's direction that such public nuisances must be abated by
the destruction or removal thereof, and of the time and place set for the public hearing
to consider protests, in the following manner:
By mailing, at least ten (10) days prior to the time fixed by the City Council for
hearing objections, a postcard giving notice of the time, place and purpose of the
• hearing to consider protests, to all owners of real property subject to assessment for
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the abatement work, directed to the address of said owners as shown on the latest
County tax roll.
ADOPTED, this 2711, day of June, 2000.
Mayor
• STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH }
I, LAVONNE M. HARKLESS, City Clerk of the City of Newport Beach, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council is seven; that the foregoing
resolution, being Resolution No. 2000 -56 was duly and regularly introduced before and adopted by
the City Council of said City at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the
27th day of June, 2000, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Glover, Adams, Debay, O'Neil, Mayor Noyes
Noes: None
Absent: Ridgeway
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
• official seal of said City this 28th day of June, 2000.
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City Clerk
Newport Beach, California