Community Safety Ordinance Presented to the City Council January 30, 2007 Agenda item 10.01

Community Safety Ordinance Goal: Mechanism to reduce drains on resources. Intent: Work with property owners in a cooperative fashion before cooperative fashion before enforcement. enforcement. Comprehensive notification & enforcement process to deal with (1) chronic crime and (2) quality of life issues

Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Origins: Community Health Action Team (CHAT) Need for effective tool against Chronic Nuisance Properties. City Survey (Vacaville, Oakland, Portland, Denver, etc.) Draft modeled after Vacaville ordinance.

Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Objectives: Expeditiously and effectively address Nuisance Properties. Deny the use of real and personal property to further criminal activity. Obtain owner/tenant cooperation in removing the criminal element from specific addresses. Impose fines and seek other judicial relief from owners/tenants who fail to comply. Specifies no housing discrimination or evictions based on prejudice (Must be incident specific).

Community Safety Ordinance Property Owner Permitting or Failing to Prevent Safety Violations: Narcotics violations Prostitution Criminal gang activity Firearm violations Violent criminal acts Disturbances/parties with crimes involved Exceeding occupancy load

Community Safety Ordinance Key Features: Abatement of chronic nuisance properties in cooperation with owners/tenants. Focus on repetitive/chronic crime-related activity and quality-of-life issues. Recovery of administrative and personnel costs associated with ordinance enforcement. Enhanced fines and penalties for ordinance violations.

Community Safety Ordinance Chronic Nuisance Properties: New Grand Save Market Ferreyra’s Bar Lido Hotel

Other Potential Nuisance Locations Analysis of potential Business/Commercial nuisance locations based on Calls-for-service and crime statistics, as requested by the Planning Commission

Community Safety Ordinance Enforcement Process: Violation Identification Owner Notification Recurrence within 30 days - Administrative citation, or civil action Owner Appeal – Formal Hearing - Upheld or dismissed Penalties

Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Penalties: Administrative Citations $ $ $ $ Administrative Injunction Injunction through Administrative hearing process Injunction through Administrative hearing process Civil Penalties $1, a day per violation $1, a day per violation Plus Administrative expenses Plus Administrative expenses Civil Injunction Injunctive relief Injunctive relief

Recommendation Committee’s Recommendation: the City Council adopt the Community Safety Ordinance as an urgency measure.

Community Safety Ordinance Presented to the City Council January 30, 2007 Agenda item 10.01