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Staff Report for an Ordinance to Amend Title 1, Chapter 12 of the San Leandro Municipal Code Relating to "Citation - Violations" and Title 3, Chapter 2 of the San Leandro Municipal Code Relating to Weed Abatement
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SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
The City is commencing a Community Care initiative to uphold community standards related to the appearance and maintenance of land, real property, and real property improvements, to beautify and maintain the City's aesthetics, and address blight and illegal construction. To these ends, staff recommends that the City Council waive first reading and introduce an Ordinance to amend certain sections of Chapter 1-12 related to enforcement of the Municipal Code, and Chapter 3-2, the Weed Abatement Ordinance.
BACKGROUND AND ANALYSIS
On March 20, 2017, the City Council provided direction to staff to transfer code enforcement responsibilities related to the City's Community Preservation Ordinance (SLMC Chapter 1-12), Weed Abatement Ordinance (SLMC Chapter 3-2) and the Zoning Code from the San Leandro Police Department Community Compliance Section to the Community Development Department. $1,000,000 was allocated for start-up costs and funding of a two-year enhanced Community Care program. The goal of the initiative is to rebuild the City's resources to beautify the City by addressing aesthetic issues and maintaining land and real property to the community's standards as established by the Municipal Code, throughout the City.
Operations for this component of the Community Care initiative are scheduled to start in Summer 2017 with the hiring of a Code Enforcement Supervisor and two Code Enforcement Officers. A timeline of the roll-out of services follows:
April 20th Code Enforcement Supervisor & Code Enforcement Officer job description updates to Personnel Relations Board
April 24th Administrative Enforcement Revisions to Muni Code to City Council Rules Committee
June 5th Introduction of amendments to the Mu...
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