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Planning staff outlines code-enforcement steps for noncompliant auto business, struggles to enforce single-room-occupancy conversions
Summary
Staff described a stepped code-enforcement process for an auto-business land-use violation (Squid Auto/Sprint Auto), including two warning notices and potential civil citation fines; commissioners also discussed challenges policing illegal single-room-occupancy conversions and boarding-house situations.
City staff briefed the commission on two code-enforcement topics on Sept. 9: the status of a noncompliant auto-business property and recurring enforcement challenges for single-room-occupancy (SRO) and boarding-house conversions.
Auto-business compliance: staff said the property often referred to in the discussion (Squid Auto, off Valley/Highway 99) received an initial notice July 30 without a due date and a second notice with a due date that fell on the meeting day; staff has instructed code-compliance to issue the second notice and is consulting the city attorney on next steps. Staff described the city's citation process as a three-step system: two warning notices followed by a third notice that would start a 10-day period after which staff could seek…
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