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Council backs targeted enforcement approach and asks staff to analyze hiring a code-enforcement officer
Summary
After hearing that code enforcement is stretched (about 60% of workload responding to homeless encampments), the council directed staff to pursue a targeted approach to vacant commercial property enforcement and to return with a fiscal analysis on adding an enforcement FTE and potential budget amendment.
The council discussed an agenda item that examined options to address vacant commercial buildings and lots in Atwater: adopt a new registration-and-fee ordinance; reprioritize existing code enforcement resources toward vacant-commercial blight; or continue current practice.
City staff and Code Enforcement Manager Daniel Garcia explained the operational constraints: a small…
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