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Cleveland presents year-one results of revised nuisance-property enforcement program

Cleveland City Council Public Safety Committee · April 23, 2026
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Summary

Department of Public Safety staff outlined a seven-step process for enforcing chapter 6.30 nuisance rules and reported early results: about 68 current nuisance properties, 233 qualifying violations and 71 warning letters sent since program start; staff said 57 abatement plans were received and that fines can be certified to property taxes.

City public-safety staff walked the Public Safety Committee through the revised nuisance-property enforcement program on April 22, explaining the intake, review, notice and fine processes the division is now using to hold property owners accountable for repeated quality-of-life and criminal-activity complaints.

Assistant Director Jason Schachner and team summarized a seven-step workflow that begins with a 30-day Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) lookback and Power BI filtering to identify properties with repeated qualifying…

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