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Council committee amends criminal-nuisance ordinance, mandates abatement plans and sets new fines
Summary
The Safety & Justice Committee approved ordinance 228-2025 with amendments that make abatement plans mandatory after repeated criminal-nuisance activity, impose a $250 fine at nuisance declaration and change the accumulation window from six to 12 months.
Cleveland’s Safety & Justice Committee approved amendments to the city’s criminal-nuisance ordinance that require property owners to submit abatement plans after repeated criminal activity on their properties, create an immediate $250 fine when a property is declared a nuisance and change the accumulation window for nuisance incidents from six months to 12 months.
Ordinance 228-2025, as amended, revises sections 630.01 and 630.02 of the codified ordinances (as amended by ordinance 574-18). Assistant Director Schachner, representing the Department of Public Safety, summarized the administration’s changes and told the committee the revisions are intended to strengthen enforcement tools for “problem properties” where police repeatedly respond.
Under the amended ordinance, the city may declare a property a nuisance after a pattern of criminal-activity calls for service (the committee approved changing the counting period to incidents on separate calendar…
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