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Lakeland hearing officer finds violations at about 50 properties; compliance dates and daily fines set
Summary
Hearing Officer Kelvin Reddy found violations and adopted code-enforcement recommendations for roughly 50 cases at a City of Lakeland code enforcement hearing, setting compliance deadlines (most March 16 or May 5, 2025) and standard fines ($50 per day, with limited amended orders at $30 per day). Several cases were continued to later hearings.
Hearing Officer Kelvin Reddy presided over a City of Lakeland code enforcement hearing in which he found violations and adopted code-enforcement recommendations for about 50 separate cases, imposing compliance deadlines and daily fines for properties with outstanding housing, overgrowth, derelict-vehicle and sign violations.
The hearing covered a docket of property-maintenance and related code matters, including housing-code violations, overgrowth/junk/open-storage cases under chapter 86-2, derelict-vehicle citations under ordinance 41-34-1, and historic-district certificate-of-review and building-permit infractions. Most cases resulted in an order that the property come into compliance by a city-specified date or pay a daily fine until compliance is met.
Why it matters: these enforcement actions set firm deadlines for property owners and are the primary administrative mechanism the city uses to address public-health, safety and neighborhood-maintenance concerns. The orders also create continuing monetary penalties that can accumulate if owners do not remediate the violations.
At the start of many docket items code enforcement officers presented photographs and reinspection notes. For example, Angela Kaiser, Code Enforcement Officer for the City of Lakeland, told the hearing that certified notice had been received in multiple cases; Daniel Povey and Charles McClellan similarly presented interior and exterior violations and photographs for other properties. Hearing Officer Kelvin Reddy repeatedly stated, "I will adopt the recommendation of code enforcement in this case," before announcing the compliance date and fine schedule.
Votes at a glance (selected docket items and outcomes): - LCE24-06697 — 1017 Griffin Road #320 (Griffin Park Apartments Trust): housing-code violations; order adopted. Compliance by 2025-05-05 or $50 per day until compliance. - LCE24-06709 — 405 W. Myrtle Street (TNT Novak Family Trust):…
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