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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03 - 1999 Weed Abatement ProgramJune 28,1999 Council AWgenda Item No. 3 TO: Mayor and Members of the City Council FROM: Mayor Fire and Marine Chief SUBJECT: 1999 Weed Abatement Program RECOMMENDATION: Adopt a resolution declaring that weeds and other nuisances exist and schedule a public hearing for August 9, 1999, regarding their abatement. Each year the Fire and Marine Department administers the City's Weed and Rubbish Abatement program per Newport Beach Municipal Code Chapter 10.48. This program involves inventorying all lots that require cleaning and sending notification to the owners of those properties. The property owners have the option of cleaning their property prior to the start of the City's cleaning. If they choose not to clean their property, the City will clean the lot and the cost of the work, alon&. with an administrative fee of $150.00 or actual costs of mitigation plus 45 %, will be billed to the property owner. If payment is not received, the bill is forwarded to the County Assessor for inclusion on the property owner's tax bill. The 1999 Weed Abatement Program schedule is: May 24,1999 Letters of notification are sent to property owners regarding abatement procedures. The Fire and Marine Department s phone number is included in the letter so those property owners with questions may call. June 28,1999 The City Council adopts a resolution and sets a public hearing date. August 9, 1999 A public hearing is held to certify the list of properties that may require weed abatement and cleaning. Adopt a resolution ordering the Fire and Marine Chief to abate weeds and other nuisances. Schedule a public hearing to confirm assessments against those properties cleaned by the City. August 10, 1999 Begin the cleaning of properties. October 11, 1999 A public hearing is held to confirm assessments against those properties cleaned by the City, and adopt resolution confirming weed abatement costs to be assessed to property owners. October 12,1999 The Revenue Division issues invoices to property owners 0 whose property was cleaned by the City. RESOLUTION NO. 99- 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 AND MARINE CHIEF TO GIVE NOTICE OF THE PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION AND OF THE PUBLIC HEARING SET FOR AUGUST 9,1999. 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 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. 0 iq 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 9th day of August 1999, 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 and Marine 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 the abatement work, directed to the address of said owners as shown on the latest County tax roll. ADOPTED, this day of ,1999. Mayor ATTEST: City Clerk 3