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March 25, 2025
1 • Background
Weed Abatement
Program
Fire Department
Jenn Panko
Acting Deputy Chief
Item #7 RTC 25-1135
March 25, 2025
• COD Recommended Removals from the 2025 County
Commencement Report
• Recommended Action
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2 POST MEETING MATERIAL
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3 BACKGROUND
On February 25, 2025, the City Council was given an overview of the Weed Abatement Program with an update of programmatic improvements made for 2025. • New inspection start date in Santa Clara of April 15th to align closer to City Clean-Up Campaign • Increased Communications : City website, social media, "santaclaraweeds" email • A letter from the Fire Department sent to all properties in Santa Clara that were added to the 2025 County Commencement List with contact information to answer questions or address concerns about the program.
• Increased the "warning period" by the addition of a City inspection of new properties on the List between the end of the inspection period for the season and before the public hearing to confirm non compliance or compliance.
• A report will be provided to the Council before the public hearing with recommendations for a property's continuation or removal from the list.
• Referral of Santa Clara property owners who cannot physically or financially abate their own weeds to the Santa Clara Firefighters Senior Assist Program . . - ·-·-- . --~ - - . - ~- - - - - --
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BACKGROUND
• On February 25, 2025, the City Council was given an overview of the Weed Abatement Program with an update of programmatic improvements made for 2025. • At the February 25th meeting The City Council passed a resolution declaring weeds a nuisance in alignment with Chapter 8.15 of the City Code, and a Public Hearing was scheduled for March 25, 2025, to allow citizens to express their concerns or objections to the 2025 Weed Abatement Commencement Report.
• For 2025, the County has identified 262 non-compliant parcels or lots of land in Santa Clara. Fifty eight (58) properties were newly added to the list for 2025. • One of the programmatic improvements discussed during the February 25, 2025, City Council mee ting was that the City's Code Enforcement would visit the 58 propert ies added to the 2025 County Commencement Report for 2025 and the City Council would be provided a list of the 58 properties with their recommendations.
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CITY CODE ENFORCEMENT
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Code Enforcement performed inspections on the 58 new properties added to the County Commencement Report between Feb. 26 - March 24, 2025.
• After these inspections Code Enforcement is recommending that 38 of the 58 new properties on the County Report be removed from the County Commencement Report due to demonstrated compliance as outlined in the County guidelines.
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• Determine the proposed actions are exempt from CEQA pursuant to Section 15308 (Actions by Regulatory Agencies for Protection of the Environment) of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations; • Accept the recommendation from the City's Code Enforcement for the removal of the 38 properties who have come into compliance from the County's 2025 Commencement Report;
• Adopt a Resolution Ordering the Abatement of a Nuisance Consisting of Growing Weeds in the City of Santa Clara on the Identified Parcels (less those properties removed under Recommendation 2) in Accordance with City Code Chapter 8.15 and in Association with the C t W d Ab t t P f 2023 2024 • - - --- - ~ - ~ - - - -
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