Agenda Date: 08/20/2024
Subject:
Title
Ordinance 20-2024: An ordinance on second reading amending various titles and sections of the Littleton City Code related to nuisances and nuisance abatements
Body
From:
James L. Becklenberg, City Manager
Prepared by:
Matt Knight, Community Development Director
Presentations:
Reid Betzing, City Attorney
PURPOSE:
The purpose of this ordinance is to update varying provisions of the city's municipal code to: 1) clarify and centralize nuisance violations and enforcement mechanisms; and 2) provide staff with additional tools for gaining compliance and remediating non-compliant properties.
LONG-TERM OUTCOME(S) SERVED:
Safe Community; High-Quality Governance
DISCUSSION:
Staff is proposing the attached amendments to clarify, define, and centralize public nuisance violations as part of a larger effort to strengthen community living conditions and clarify the rights and responsibilities of property owners within city limits.
Further, the relevant sections of the sections being proposed for amendment have not been reviewed or updated since at least the early 1970s. The proposed amendments aim to modernize the requirements, eliminate inconsistencies in language, and provide staff with additional tools for gaining compliance, as well as creating a more consistent and defined process to address properties in violation of our nuisance designations. The following table provides a general summary of the proposed concerns and resolutions related to this code update.
Current Code Section
Concerns
Resolution
7-1 GARBAGE AND REFUSE
7-1-2 Definitions
Lacking definitions (i.e. responsible party; rubbish); require clarity in other definitions (3 definitions for garbage, which can be more concise);
Revise definitions, clarify existing.
7-1-4 Sanitary Inspectors
Lack of documentation where CM appointed "sanitary inspectors." Outdated phrase not used elsewhere in code.
Replace term "sanitary inspectors" with "code compliance officers"
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