City Attorney’s Office
February 22, 2024
MOU with OAG signed in August 2023.
Enforce laws related to illegal commercial
cannabis activity.
January 31, 2024, CAPP confirmed cultivation at
three locations, and issued two citations, one for
$46,000 and one for $65,000. The third citation is
pending.
January 31, 2024, CAPP inspected twenty-four
tobacco retailers, and found illegal cannabis at
sixteen of these stores.
CAPP
Temporary Night Team launched August 17, 2023,
consisting of two Senior Community Revitalization
Specialists (CRS).
Permanent Night Team launched November 30, 2023.
City-wide enforcement of a range of cases, including
sidewalk and mobile vending.
As of January 12, the team currently has over 60 open cases, and they have closed 92 public nuisance
cases. They have also provided educational materials
to more than 35 sidewalk vendors and verified
licensing for more than 80 mobile vendors.
Verifying mobile vendor
licensing.
Vendor dripping grease on
the ground.
Seven Council District Teams
Blighted Vacant Building Team
Blackstone Corridor
District Team Case Numbers (as of January 11, 2024):
District 1 – 202 cases
District 2 – 98 cases
District 3 – 322 cases
District 4 – 119 cases
District 5 – 161 cases
District 6 – 49 cases
District 7 – 228 cases
Total: 1179 Cases
From October through January, the District teams opened and closed the following amounts of cases:
OCT 2023 –
JAN 2024 OPENED CLOSED
D1 224 246
D2 158 210
D3 318 350
D4 210 182
D5 118 174
D6 105 153
D7 223 259
Community Compliance
Community Compliance
Commercial Vacant Building Ordinance
4191 E Belmont (District 7) – vacant commercial building rehabilitated with a new tenant.
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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: Hidalgo (D7), Addams (D3), Greenberg (D5), Webster (D7), Vinland (D4), Nelson (D2), Hamilton/Fresno (D2), and Edison (D3). 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: Roosevelt (D5), Ewing (D7), Del Mar (D4) and Lawless (D2).
2237 E Tyler (Webster Neighborhood – District 3)
Front porch enclosed without permits, peeling paint, junk/rubbish.
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5122 E Lamona (Turner Neighborhood – District 7)
Tarp on roof led to interior inspection; found severe water damage.
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Abatement Team
◦ Completed 75 abatements, including board-ups, tall grass/weed abatements, and junk/rubbish clean-ups.
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3598 N State front yard (District 1)
Abatement Team
3598 N State backyard (District 1)
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Abatement Team – 9573 N Garden (District 6)
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Abatement Team – 2167 N Cornelia (District 3)
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Demolition Team
- Demolitions Completed
- 1 directly by the City
- 5 completed by property owners with Code Enforcement oversight and motivation
- Demolitions in Progress
- 10 demolitions are in progress
- 3 demolition applications are in progress
- 1 rehabilitation in lieu of demolition has been completed - 9 rehabilitations by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress - 9 applications for rehabilitation by owner in lieu of demolition are in progress
Demolition by Property Owner – 274 N Orchard
(District 7)
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Rehabilitation by Property Owner – 1281 N Arthur
(District 3)
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Tire Team
◦ Collected over 4,000 tires this quarter
◦ Conducted 65 waste tire facility inspections this quarter ◦ Tire Amnesty Event held on February 17, 2024, in District 3 Illegal Dumping Team
◦ Issued 77 citations since last Code Report
◦ 17 covert camera units are in use to combat illegal dumping and address complaints received from residents and businesses.
Incident #1: Saturday, November 4, 2023, Vehicle left CARTs at 11:11 AM after being refused permission to dispose of the boat at a recycling event.
Boat was dumped on the side of the road on Annadale west of MLK.
Incident #2: November 19, 2023, boat illegally dumped at Harvey and Backer. License plate was captured by covert camera.
Quarterly assessment hearings
Most recently, these were held on November 28
and 29, 2023, and a total of $218,954.58 was
assessed on about 200 cases.
This quarter, this team processed 132 code
enforcement Public Records Act requests, 1,359
calls and processed 1,899 correspondences.
ASET and Reactive
◦ ASET currently has 19 open cases with
properties containing 345 rental units.
◦ Since the last report, the Reactive team has
opened 270 cases, closed 294 cases, and
currently there are 373 active cases.
Before
This property contains four units. The initial inspection of the entire complex occurred on October 25, 2023, and 101 violations were found.
The rehabilitation is in progress, and the team will monitor until all violations are cleared.
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After
Before
This is a complex with ten units and an unpermitted converted garage unit.
The initial inspection of the entire complex occurred on August 16, 2023, and 131 violations were found. The property owner has not been making sufficient progress, so a citation for $12,500 was issued on January 16, 2024. The team will continue to monitor progress until the property is n compliance.
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Proactive Inspections
◦ Currently, there are 87,784 individual rental units
registered in the Rental Housing Registry, which are
located at 30,957 registered rental properties.
◦ Since the inception of the program, over 18,403
Baseline Health & Safety and Compliance Re-
inspections have been performed.
From October 1, 2023, to present, 39 complaint-
based inspections have been completed, 17 cases
have been closed, and 12 cases are currently
active.
In the same time period, the team has completed
three maintenance inspections with a total of 540
spaces.
Missing water heater door and siding
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Improper storage.
The legal team focuses on: inspection/abatement
warrants; petitioning the court for receivership;
research memoranda, ordinances, and resolutions
on Code Enforcement related topics; representing
multiple departments at administrative hearings;
and the Eviction Protection Program.
Since October 1, 2023:
◦ 13 inspection and/or abatement warrants
◦ Initiated the receivership process on three properties, and successfully petitioned the court to appoint a receiver at one property.
◦ Represented the City at 12 administrative hearings.
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