1. Community Safety Ordinance Presented to the City Council January 30, 2007 Agenda item 10.01

2. Community Safety Ordinance Goal: Mechanism to reduce drains on resources. Intent: Work with property owners in a cooperative fashion before cooperative fashion before enforcement. enforcement. Comprehensive notification & enforcement process to deal with (1) chronic crime and (2) quality of life issues

3. Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Origins: Community Health Action Team (CHAT) Need for effective tool against Chronic Nuisance Properties. City Survey (Vacaville, Oakland, Portland, Denver, etc.) Draft modeled after Vacaville ordinance.

4. Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Objectives: Expeditiously and effectively address Nuisance Properties. Deny the use of real and personal property to further criminal activity. Obtain owner/tenant cooperation in removing the criminal element from specific addresses. Impose fines and seek other judicial relief from owners/tenants who fail to comply. Specifies no housing discrimination or evictions based on prejudice (Must be incident specific).

5. Community Safety Ordinance Property Owner Permitting or Failing to Prevent Safety Violations: Narcotics violations Prostitution Criminal gang activity Firearm violations Violent criminal acts Disturbances/parties with crimes involved Exceeding occupancy load

6. Community Safety Ordinance Key Features: Abatement of chronic nuisance properties in cooperation with owners/tenants. Focus on repetitive/chronic crime-related activity and quality-of-life issues. Recovery of administrative and personnel costs associated with ordinance enforcement. Enhanced fines and penalties for ordinance violations.

7. Community Safety Ordinance Chronic Nuisance Properties: New Grand Save Market Ferreyra’s Bar Lido Hotel

8. Other Potential Nuisance Locations Analysis of potential Business/Commercial nuisance locations based on Calls-for-service and crime statistics, as requested by the Planning Commission

9. Community Safety Ordinance Enforcement Process: Violation Identification Owner Notification Recurrence within 30 days - Administrative citation, or civil action Owner Appeal – Formal Hearing - Upheld or dismissed Penalties

10. Community Safety Ordinance Ordinance Penalties: Administrative Citations $200.00 $200.00 $500.00 $500.00 Administrative Injunction Injunction through Administrative hearing process Injunction through Administrative hearing process Civil Penalties $1,000.00 a day per violation $1,000.00 a day per violation Plus Administrative expenses Plus Administrative expenses Civil Injunction Injunctive relief Injunctive relief

11. Recommendation Committee’s Recommendation: the City Council adopt the Community Safety Ordinance as an urgency measure.

12. Community Safety Ordinance Presented to the City Council January 30, 2007 Agenda item 10.01