TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Quinn M. Barrow, City Attorney
Marisa Lundstedt, Community Development Director
SUBJECT:Title
Discussion of Statement of Intent Process to Address Blight (City Attorney Quinn Barrow).
CONTINUED FROM THE JULY 5, 2016 CITY COUNCIL MEETING
PROVIDE DIRECTION
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council provide further direction regarding the statement of intent process to address blight within the City.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No fiscal implications are associated with the recommended action.
BACKGROUND:
At a prior City Council meeting, the Council requested that staff provide a report on the City of San Diego's requirement that owners of vacant land (typically with boarded up structures) file with the City a "Statement of Intent Process to Address Blight" that identifies the measures that the property owner will take to eliminate or mitigate blight.
DISCUSSION:
In the last decade, communities were faced with large number of vacant, residential properties that were owned by banks and lending institutions via foreclosure proceedings where the former owners defaulted on mortgage payments. Consistent with federal HUD guidelines and HUD "Mortgagee Letters," those communities adopted "Regulation of Properties in Foreclosure and Abandoned Property" ordinances to require the banks and lending institutions to:
* Submit the property to regular City inspections
* Undertake regular maintenance
* Fence vacant lots
* Board abandoned building
* Pay monthly monitoring fees for vacant buildings declared to be a nuisance
* Pay enforcement response fees
* Maintain landscaping and plant materials on the parcel of land on which the vacant building is located
* Regularly maintain the exterior of the building and exterior signage and signage structures
* Regularly remove all weeds, trash, ...
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