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Trinity County planning panel urges board to revise code to improve blight enforcement
Summary
The Trinity County Planning Commission voted 5-0 to recommend that the Board of Supervisors revise Title 1 to create funding/recovery mechanisms and add narrow dangerous-nuisance language to Title 8, after staff and public commenters said current enforcement and cost-recovery tools are insufficient.
The Trinity County Planning Commission voted unanimously on Sept. 25 to recommend that the Board of Supervisors revise county code to strengthen enforcement and cost-recovery for blight and dangerous nuisances.
Interim planning director Drew Blavani told commissioners that staff had reviewed neighboring jurisdictions’ approaches and concluded the county lacks “an adequate cost recovery mechanism.” He said updating Title 1 and Title 8 and consolidating related code sections would allow staff to better enforce zoning and health-and-safety violations and recover some costs through a “violation removal fee.”
Why it matters: Commissioners and public commenters framed the change as an…
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