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City attorney outlines nuisance-abatement ordinance to target repeat crime-linked properties
Summary
A proposed nuisance-abatement ordinance under chapter 893 would let the police and special magistrate label properties chronic nuisances after two documented criminal offenses within six months, enabling fines, orders and other remedies; city attorney said the tool is modeled on ordinances used elsewhere in Palm Beach County.
City attorney Shauna Lamb told the commission the proposed nuisance-abatement ordinance would create a police-enforced mechanism under chapter 893 to address properties tied to repeated criminal activity. "Chapter 893 allows cities the ability to do this," Lamb said, and described the process: properties with documented repeated offenses (for example, drug buys, prostitution, gang-related felony activity) may be labeled chronic nuisances, owners can be offered voluntary compliance…
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