Code Enforcement Report
City Attorney’s Office
January 19, 2023
Seven Council District Teams
Blighted Vacant Building Team
Blackstone Corridor
Emergency Response
Community Compliance
District Team Case Numbers (as of January 11, 2023):
District 1 – 211 cases
District 2 – 137 cases
District 3 – 273 cases
District 4 – 156 cases
District 5 – 164 cases
District 6 – 64 cases
District 7 – 153 cases
Total: 1158 Cases
Community Compliance
Between October 20 to December 20, 2022, the District teams opened and closed the following amounts of cases:
Community Compliance
DISTRICT
OPEN
CLOSED
D1
262
281
D2
137
164
D3
230
255
D4
193
204
D5
138
159
D6
144
143
D7
170
227
1274
1433
2186 S Ivy (District 3)
Community Compliance
Before
After
2343 S Orinda (District 3)
Community Compliance
Before
After
The School Area Team provides pro-active code enforcement around schools.
SAT has completed inspections and outreach in the following four school areas: Columbia (D3), Heaton (D1), Vang Pao/Sequoia (D5), and Wishon/McLane (D4). A small number of cases in these areas will continue as they require additional time and effort to reach compliance.
SAT enforcement and outreach is now underway in the following four school areas: Leavenworth (D7), Jefferson (D3), Winchell (D5), and Ayer/Sunnyside (D5).
Special TeamsSchool Area Team
1 2
3 4
5 7
6 12
11 10
8 9
13 14
15 17
16 18
19 20
21 22
23 24
25 26
27 28
29 30
31 33
32 City of Fresno
February 2020 to Present
34 35
36 37
38 39
40 41
42 43
44 45
1 Fort Miller
2 Pyle
3 Olmos
4 Wilson
5 Lincoln
6 Lane
7 Rowell
8 Ericson and Norseman
9 Homan
10 Susan B. Anthony
11 Calwa
12 Mayfair
13 Jackson
14 Pinedale
15 West Fresno
16 Teague
17 Harvest and Glacier
18 Sunset
19 Thomas
20 Muir
21 Balderas
22 Burroughs
23 Fremont
24 Centennial
25 Aynesworth
26 Addicott and Scandinavian
27 Roeding and Williams
28 Storey
29 Eaton and Ahwahnee
30 Wolters
31 Holland
32 Yokomi
33 Figarden
34 Tilley
35 Steinbeck and Central East
36 McKinley and El Capitan
37 Saroyan
38 Columbia
39 Vang Pao and Sequoia
40 Wishon and McLane
41 Heaton
42 Leavenworth
43 Jefferson
44 Winchell
45 Ayer and Sunnyside
Community Engagement
Abatement Team
Completed 105 abatements, including board-ups, tall grass/weed abatements, and junk/rubbish clean-ups.
In 2022, (with the Tire Team) collected 2,072,780 pounds of waste, including abatements, tires, and other trash.
Special Teams
Before
After
3505 N Price (District 4)
Abatement Team – 6991 N Van Buren (District 2)
Special Teams
Before
After
Abatement Team – APN 477-161-11 (District 3)
Special Teams
Before
After
Demolition Team
Demolitions Completed
1 directly by the City
5 completed by property owners with Code Enforcement oversight and motivation Demolitions in Progress
3 demolitions are in progress
5 demolition applications are in progress
5 rehabilitations by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress 10 applications for rehabilitation by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress Rehabilitations
1 property fully rehabilitated
Special Teams
Demolition by City – 2378 S Nicholas (District 3)
Special Teams
Before
After
Demolition by Property Owner – 5689 E Kings Canyon Rd (District 5) Special Teams
Before
After
Tire Team
Collected 2,584 waste tires.
Conducted 52 waste tire facility inspections
Next Tire Amnesty Event - February 25, 2023 (District 3) Special Teams
Illegal Dumping Team
Issued 36 citations since last Code Report (100 citations in 2022). 17 covert camera units are in use to combat illegal dumping and address complaints received from residents and businesses.
Special Teams
Illegal Dumping
The Team and code cameras assisted FPD with capturing two homicide suspects.
Special Teams
ASET and Reactive
ASET currently has 12 open cases with properties containing 166 rental units.
Since the last report, the Reactive Unit has opened 311 cases, closed 330 cases, and has 289 active cases.
Rental Housing
ASET – 4726 E Floradora - (District 7)
Before
This property is a two-story, four-unit property. The initial inspection of the entire complex occurred on November 2, and a Notice and Order for 64 violations was issued on November 29. The violations were cleared during a reinspection on January 5, 2023.
After
ASET – 4726 E Floradora - (District 7)
Before
After
ASET – 3978 E Calwa (District 5)
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 86,882 individual rental units registered in the Rental Housing Registry, which are located at 30,612 registered rental properties.
Since the inception of the program, over 16,763 Baseline Health & Safety and Compliance Re-inspections have been performed.
As of December 21, 2022, the Proactive Rental Housing Unit has billed $1,000,300 and collected $872,500 which is an 87.4% collection rate since the program’s inception.
Rental Housing
Mobilehome Parks
Since the last quarterly report, the team has conducted 791 initial inspections and issued approximately 237 Notices of Violations addressing 599.
There have been 16 additional complaint-based inspections.
Mobilehome Parks
MHP Team Fresno Mobilehome and RV Park
Dilapidated stairs
Before
After
Before
After
MHP Team Woodward Bluffs Mobilehome Park
Fire damaged unit removed
Before
After
Eviction Protection Program
As of December 30, EPP has screened 1,428 tenants, and 824 have been referred to outside counsel.
The program has seen many successful results, including:
Sixty-seven cases where the unlawful detainer was prevented from moving forward; Fifty-three cases where the tenant was able to remain in their home; Thirty-nine cases resulting in reduction of amount owed; Five stopped lockouts.
Legal Team
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