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Corte Madera raises select administrative fines to $1,000 to deter dumping, tree removal and illicit runoff
Summary
Council amended the municipal code to allow fines by resolution and adopted a schedule increasing selected administrative penalties—illegal dumping, park vandalism, illicit stormwater discharges, unauthorized tree removal and stop-work violations—to $1,000 to strengthen enforcement and deterrence.
The Corte Madera Town Council voted to allow the council to set administrative-citation penalties by resolution and adopted a revised schedule raising fines for a handful of high-impact offenses to $1,000. Planning manager Michael Moriarty told the council the change is intended to make penalties meaningful for problems that the prior low tiers did not deter.
"The fines must be meaningful, proportional, and adoptable," Moriarty said,…
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