RECEIVED
CITY CLERK/HUMAN RESOURCES*
AUG D7 2023
CITY OF PLACERVILLE
3101 CENTER STREET
To: Placerville City Council PLACERVILLE, CA 95667
City Clerk Department
3101 Center Street
Placerville, CA 95667
My name is James Webb. This letter is addressed to City Council of Placerville for the August 08, 2023 council meeting.
I received a Notice to Correct regarding Occupancy Issues from the Code Enforcement Department on June 20, 2023 regarding my ADU within City limits.
I applied for a hearing on June 30, 2023. Our local laws identify my right to a timely hearing and require my hearing to be held within 30 days of my filing date. I want to bring to the attention of the City Council that the Code Enforcement department has failed to follow through with their 30-day timeline to hold my public hearing with a neutral mediator. I have since asked for my hearing and deposit fee to be refunded in a Demand letter and I have given City staff until August 11, 2023 to provide me with my refund for their failure to follow due process of my timely hearing. I was required to follow our local rules of law and file for my hearing timely, I hope your staff are held to the same timely expectations as the residents they serve.
Additionally, some of the specific occupancy issues that I have proposed and put as questions to the Code Enforcement Department have gone unanswered. Noteworthy, some of the issues that I have brought up to the Code Enforcement Department are being directly discussed in the proposed Agenda to not be allowable in Item #7.5 Ordinance and with penalties of a misdemeanor a $1000 fine and up to 6 months in jail. I am bringing this to the attention of the Council as the timeliness of this item to be approved with such severe consequences is something that I am taking very personally and I have considered that this is why staff has delayed their responses and provided me with no hearing. It is hard not to take this as intentional and I am feeling singled out and targeted consequently. I am interpreting that staff may have waited for this ordinance to be signed and approved to correct their position with the previous code enforcement questions that I have proposed to them.
I therefore ask that you please wait to approve the 7.5 Ordinance until after August 11, 2023 so the Code Enforcement Department has time to address the specific Demand letter that I have provided to them on August 1, 2023.
Thank you
James Webb