City Attorney’s Office
October 13, 2022
ASET and Reactive
◦ ASET currently has 12 open cases with
properties containing 137 rental units.
◦ Since June 1, 2022, the Reactive Unit has
opened 389 cases, closed 599 cases, and has
330 active cases.
Before
This property consists of 18 single room occupancy units. A Notice of Violation was issued after inspection for smoke alarms, and those violations have been cleared. A Notice and Order for remaining violations is in progress.
In Progress In Progress
This case was initially opened as a Motel; however, once inspected, its status changed to an ASET case. A Compliance Agreement was signed on January 27, 2022, and the owner has submitted plans to convert the property to 12 multi-family units upstairs and commercial units downstairs.
Proactive Inspections
◦ Currently, there are 86,565 individual rental units
registered in the Rental Housing Registry, which are
located at 30,686 registered rental properties.
◦ Since the inception of the program, over 15,873
Baseline Health & Safety and Compliance Re-
inspections have been performed.
Additional positions were authorized in the FY23
budget, and the team has focused on hiring and
training new inspectors.
The team has conducted 342 initial inspections,
and there are 733 scheduled inspections to be
completed by the end of the year.
The team has mailed approximately 200 Notices
of Violations.
All park-wide violations and health and safety violations have been cleared.
Trails End sale has closed to Harmony Communities and the Receiver has been discharged. The park will be renamed La Hacienda Mobile Estates.
Before After
Before After
A maintenance inspection was conducted on May 25, 2022, and re- inspections were conducted on August 17, 2022, and September 28, 2022.
Work at the park is in progress. A majority of the junk, rubbish, and combustible materials have been removed from the individual lots.
Before After
District Team Case Numbers (as of September 22, 2022):
District 1 – 356 cases
District 2 – 231 cases
District 3 – 607 cases
District 4 – 249 cases
District 5 – 214 cases
District 6 – 82 cases
District 7 – 385 cases
The School Area Team provides pro-active code enforcement around schools.
Since the last quarterly report, the SAT has completed inspections and outreach in the following eight school areas: Wolters (D4), Holland (D4), Yokomi (D3), Figarden (D2), Tilley (D3), Steinbeck/Central (D1), McKinley/El Capitan (D3), and Saroyan (D2).
SAT enforcement and outreach is now underway in the following four school areas: Columbia (D3), Heaton (D1), Vang Pao/Sequoia (D5), and Wishon/McLane (D4).
May
Community Engage
Before After
Fire Hazard/Hazardous tree
Before After
Illegal additions: tarps/blinds attached to structure, no address numbers visible.
Abatement Team
◦ Since the last code report, the abatement team has
completed 168 abatements, including board-ups, tall
grass/weed abatements, and junk/rubbish clean-ups.
Before After
1048 W Pico (District 1)
Abatement Team – 4768 N Jacquelyn (District 2)
Before After
Demolitions
- The Demolition Team has facilitated five demolitions since the last Code Enforcement report; two completed directly by the City, and three completed by property owners with Code Enforcement oversight and motivation. Additionally, two properties have been fully rehabilitated by property owners after Code Enforcement motivation.
Further, three demolitions are in progress, two demolition applications are in progress, two rehabilitations by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress, and five applications for rehabilitation by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress.
Tires
◦ Since the last code enforcement report, the tire team has collected 4,900 waste tires.
◦ 120 waste tire facility inspections have been conducted. ◦ A Tire Amnesty Event was held October 8, 2022 at 5015 E Olive.
Illegal Dumping
◦ Since the last code enforcement report, the illegal dumping team issued 37 citations.
◦ Seventeen covert camera units are in use to combat illegal dumping and address complaints received from residents and businesses, including one new solar-powered camera unit for use at locations where power is not available.
ABCUP Inspection Program
◦ Our legal investigator has completed inspections of all retail establishments with a Type 20 and 21 license,
excluding large retail chains and grocery stores.
◦ In total, he inspected 329 stores.
◦ He issued 55 Notices of Violation, 3 citations, and
conducted 65 re-inspections.
Eviction Protection Program
◦ As of September 23, EPP has screened 1,104 tenants,
and 672 have been referred to outside counsel.
◦ The program has seen many successful results,
including:
- Fifty-five cases where the unlawful detainer was prevented from moving forward;
- Thirty-five cases where the tenant was able to remain in their home;
- Fourteen cases resulting in reduction of amount owed; - Four stopped lockouts.
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