HomeMy WebLinkAbout93-27 - Public NuisancesRESOLUTION NO. 93-27
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NEWPORT
BEACH DECLARING THAT WEEDS AND OTHER PIIBLIC 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 PIIBLIC HEARING AT WHICH THE CITY
COUNCIL WILL CONSIDER PROTESTS FROM PERSONS OBJECTING TO
THE PROPOSED DESTRUCTION OR REMOVAL OF SUCH PIIBLIC
NUISANCES BY THE CITY AND DIRECTING THE FIRE CHIEF TO
GIVE NOTICE OF THE PASSAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION AND OF THE
PUBLIC HEARING.
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.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED:
Section 1. The City Council hereby determines and declares
that the weeds and other conditions described above which exist
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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 14th day
of June, 1993, 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 the
abatement work, directed to the address of said owners as shown on
the latest County tax roll.
ADOPTED, this 10th day of MaY , 1993.
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