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Resolution No. 10135
Resolution of Intention of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Declaring Weeds to be a Nuisance and Setting February 26, 2024 for a Public Hearing for Objections to Proposed Weed Abatement R E
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eeds, as defined in Section 8.08.010(b) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, are anticipated to develop during calendar year 2024 upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, and parcels of private property within the City of Palo Alto sufficient to constitute a public nuisance as a fire menace when dry or are otherwise combustible, or otherwise to constitute a menace to the public health as noxious or dangerous.
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OW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does RESOLVE as follows:
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ECTION 1. Weeds, as defined in Section 8.08.010(b) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code, which are anticipated to develop during calendar year 2024 upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, and parcels of private property within the City of Palo Alto, are hereby found and determined to constitute a public nuisance. Such nuisance is anticipated to exist upon some of the streets, alleys, sidewalks, and parcels of private property within the City, which are shown, described, and delineated on the several maps of the properties in said City which are recorded in the Office of the County Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, reference in each instance for the description of any particular street, alley, or parcel of private property being hereby made to the several maps aforesaid, and, in the event of there being several subdivision maps on which the same lots are shown, reference is hereby made to the latest subdivision map.
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ECTION 2. THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the said public nuisance be abated in the manner provided by Chapter 8.08 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code:
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T IS FURTHER ORDERED that a public hearing shall be held on the 26th day of February, 2024, at the hour of 5 pm, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, at the Council Chambers of the Civic Center of said City, at which the Council shall hear objections to the proposed weed abatement of such weeds and give any objections due consideration;
ii. IT IS F
URTHER ORDERED that the Fire Chief of the City of Palo Alto is directed to give notice of the public hearing in the time, manner and form provided in Chapter 8.08 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code.
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SECTION 3. Unless the nuisance is abated without delay by the destruction and removal of such weeds, the work of abating such nuisance will be done by the County of Santa Clara Department of Agriculture and Resource Management Office on behalf of the City of Palo Alto, and the expenses thereof assessed upon the lots and lands from which, and/or in the front and rear of which, such weeds shall have been destroyed and removed.
SECTION 4. The City Council of Palo Alto adopts the determination of Santa Clara County, as the lead agency, that the Weed Abatement Program is categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (“CEQA”) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15308.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: December 4, 2023
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