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CITY COMMISSION REGULAR MTG
- Meeting Date:
- 04/20/2022
- Title:
- amending Code of Ordinance Title IX General Regulations, Chapter 94, “Health and Sanitation
- Submitted For:
- David Zacherl
- Submitted By:
- Cindy Baker, Fire Department
- Department:
- Fire Department
Information
ACTION REQUEST (Brief Summary)
Consider and take action on Ordinance No. 2022-07, amending the Texas City Code of Ordinance Title IX General Regulations, Chapter 94, “Health and Sanitation”, “Section: Junked or Abandoned Vehicles to update information contained in the Code and to expand the definition of Junked Vehicles to include non-motored vehicles such as but not limited to trailers.
BACKGROUND
The current definition of a junked vehicle does not include RV’s, trailers, and other pull-behind equipment that has fallen into disrepair and is being left on property to further deteriorate where it is visible from a public place or the public right-of-way and initiating code complaints.
This negative activity is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism, creates fire hazards and constitutes an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety by attracting and harboring rodents and snakes in neighborhoods. Furthermore, it is detrimental to the economic welfare of the city by producing urban blight adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the city, and is a public nuisance.
Please see Exhibit A for examples.
This negative activity is detrimental to the safety and welfare of the general public, tends to reduce the value of private property, invites vandalism, creates fire hazards and constitutes an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety by attracting and harboring rodents and snakes in neighborhoods. Furthermore, it is detrimental to the economic welfare of the city by producing urban blight adverse to the maintenance and continuing development of the city, and is a public nuisance.
Please see Exhibit A for examples.