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St. Pete Beach magistrate finds sidewalk-blocking property now in compliance, orders $325 administrative cost
Summary
A special magistrate for the City of St. Pete Beach found a property that had blocked a sidewalk to be in violation of city code but now in compliance and ordered assessment of $325 in administrative costs; no fines were assessed and the named property representative did not appear.
Special Magistrate Lewis Cruz found that a property that had been blocking a sidewalk was in violation of the city's code but is now in compliance and ordered the assessment of $325 in administrative costs, Cruz said during a code enforcement hearing.
Cruz said the city would not assess fines but would charge "the reasonable administrative costs of $325 of the city." He asked if a representative or the named party, Ms. Valerie Powell Stafford, was present before making the finding; Cruz said he could see no one on behalf of the property when he made the ruling.
The decision followed an exchange in which the magistrate noted that some materials remained in the right-of-way after a cleanup and that the property had blocked the sidewalk. The magistrate's finding recorded that the property was in violation of the "stated code sections" referenced in the hearing and that, as of the hearing, it was in compliance.
No formal motion maker or second was recorded on the transcript, and no vote tally was recorded in the hearing excerpt. The transcript does not name the specific code sections cited.
The assessment of administrative costs is recorded as $325. The transcript indicates Ms. Valerie Powell Stafford, who was asked to appear, was not present or represented at the hearing.
No further penalties were announced on the record; the magistrate indicated the matter was being closed with the compliance finding and the administrative-cost assessment.
