HomeMy WebLinkAbout98-37 - Weed AbatementRESOLUTION NO. 98-37
• 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 JULY 13,1998.
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 the 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.
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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 13th day of July, 1998, 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 8th
ATTEST:
City Clerk
HAXT nF June 1QQ9
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
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. 98 -37, 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 8th day
of June, 1998, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
Ayes: Thomson, Debay, O'Neil, Hedges, Glover, Noyes, Mayor Edwards
Noes: None
Absent: None
Abstain: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the
official seal of said City this 9th day of June, 1998.
(Seal)
City Clerk of the City of
Newport Beach, California