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MEMORANDUM
DATE: May 19, 2022
TO: Mayor and Councilmembers
THROUGH: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager
FROM: Kyle Stannert, Deputy City Manager
RE: Public Nuisance Ordinance Update
The purpose of this memo is to provide an update to recent concerns related to problem
properties and their impacts on their surrounding neighborhoods.
Summary
effectiveness to address properties that present chronic problems of various types. An updated
staff team has begun a full review of the PNO and models from other communities, in order to
draft a major revision of the current PNO. This work will result in proposed Code amendments
to be considered by the City Council later this year.
Background
In April 2000, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 028, 2000, enacting the PNO after nine
months of work with the community and the Council Health and Safety Committee. The PNO
was intended to establish a more effective way of dealing with properties that present chronic
problems in their neighborhoods, through visual blight, disturbing the peace in the
neighborhood, and other undesirable impacts. The PNO can be thought of as an "umbrella
ordinance" which is applied in addition to the existing ordinances about the individual violations
of the particular laws identified in the PNO provisions. When enforcement of individual violations
fails to change the situation at a problem property, the PNO was intended as a tool for solving
the problems.
During the years since adoption of the PNO, it has not served its purpose as well as intended and
has not been used actively, due to the limited circumstances within its scope. Based on that
experience, staff believes a significant revision to incorporate additional types of offenses and
tool.
cc: Kelly DiMartino, Interim City Manager
Carrie Daggett, City Attorney
Jeff Swoboda, Chief of Police
Caryn Champine, Planning, Development and Transportation Services Director
Jackie Kozak-Thiel, Sustainability Services Director