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Case Details

Status:

COMPLIAN

Type:

RES: VACANT & ABANDONED
Address:

Entered Date:

03/29/2010

Applicant:

MAMER JOHN M

Description:

Abandoned home that is very run down, weedy, and has a back gate that is open. Constituent is almost certain someone is living on the property that shouldn't be. The property has graffiti as well.

Case Violations

Case Number: T10DV01703
Case Status: COMPLIAN
Case Description: RES: VACANT & ABANDONED
Total Violations: 1
Violation Date Code Statue
04/09/2010 T.C. Ch. 16, Sec. 16-13(a) ACCUMULATION OF VEGETATION PROHIBITED. Each owner, lessee, tenant, resident or occupant shall maintain a property so it is free of the accumulation or untended growth of vegetation. The accumulation or untended growth of vegetation means the presence of plants on property that create a fire, safety or health hazard, or that attract vermin either on the property, on neighboring properties, or on both, and includes but is not limited to: (1) Any lawn grass that exceeds 6 inches in height; (2) All weeds that exceed 6 inches in height; (3) Dead trees and dead shrubs; (4) Dead palm fronds within ten feet of the ground, a structure, a fence or wall, or of any combustible other than the tree from which the fronds have grown; (5) Any tree, shrub, or other form of vegetation of any kind on the property or on the adjoining right-of-way, street, or alley that extends over or under the sidewalk space or roadway in a manner that may interfere with the reasonable use of the street, sidewalk, or alley for pedestrian or vehicular traffic of any kind or that may obstruct the view or light distribution of traffic-control devices or luminaries. Vegetation must be trimmed and maintained to provide an unobstructed pedestrian path a minimum 48 inches in width and 80 inches in height from grade.

Outstanding Inspections

Case Number: T10DV01703
Case Status: COMPLIAN
Case Description: RES: VACANT & ABANDONED
Total Outstanding Inspections - 4
End Date Description Inspector Results Comments
05/19/2010 NPO - GRAFFITI RMENDOZA Item closed
05/19/2010 NPO - REFUSE/TRASH/DEBRIS RMENDOZA Item closed
11/02/2010 NPO(DL)-VACANT & UNSEC.STRUCT RMENDOZA Follow-up inspection
11/02/2010 NPO - WEEDS/GRASSES RMENDOZA Follow-up inspection

Completed Inspections

Case Status: COMPLIAN
Case Number: T10DV01703
Case Description: RES: VACANT & ABANDONED
Total Completed Inspections - 2
End Date Description Inspector Results Comments
04/08/2010 INSP - INITIAL CODE ENFORCMENT RMENDOZA Approved STRUCTURE IS VACANT AND BOARDED. WEEDS, TRASH AND GRAFFITI THROUGHOUT THE PROPERTY.
11/02/2010 INSP - FOLLOW UP CODE ENFORCE RMENDOZA Approved UNIT REMAINS BOARDED. WEEDS HAVE GROWN AGAIN.

Completed Activity Special Conditions

Case Description - RES: VACANT & ABANDONED
Case Number - T10DV01703
Case Status: COMPLIAN
Total Completed Case Activity Conditions: 11
Date Name
05/03/2010 CONTACTED BY PHONE
04/13/2010 CONTACTED BY MAILING
04/22/2010 CONTACTED BY EMAIL
01/28/2011 PROCESS SERVED
04/13/2010 NOTICE OF VIOLATION ISSUED
03/10/2011 VIOLATION CLOSED
04/09/2010 RESEARCH
12/28/2010 REFERENCE
04/09/2010 T.C. Ch. 16, Sec. 16-12(a)(3) BOARDED WINDOW OR DOOR OPENINGS. a. No occupied structure may have boarded window or door openings, except as necessary on a temporary basis to keep the structure secure while under repair. b. While vacant structures may temporarily be secured by boarding up window and door openings in accordance with section 16-14(b), having or maintaining boarded window or door openings on a vacant structure for 180 days or more in any one-year period is prohibited.
04/09/2010 T.C. Ch. 16, Sec. 16-13(b) ACCUMULATION OF REFUSE PROHIBITED. Each owner, lessee, tenant, resident or occupant shall maintain a property so it is free of accumulated refuse and debris. Accumulated refuse and debris means contained or uncontained refuse and debris that is present on the property in a manner not authorized by the Tucson Code. Material recycling facilities meeting the requirements of section 15-24.7 are exempt from this prohibition.
04/09/2010 T.C. Ch. 16, Sec. 16-30. GRAFFITI PREVENTION, PROHIBITION AND REMOVAL. (a) Graffiti prohibited, abatement procedures, penalty. No person who owns or is in control of any real property within the city shall maintain, permit or allow graffiti to remain on any building, fence, structure or otherwise on such property where the graffiti is visible from the street or other public or private property. (b) Notice of violation and abatement. Upon the receipt of notice requiring abatement from the graffiti abatement official, any person owning or otherwise being in control of the property shall remove or abate all graffiti within the time frame specified in such notice. The graffiti abatement official shall give notice utilizing the procedures set forth in section 16-45 of this chapter, except that the notice need not include a statement describing the right to an administrative appeal, since none exists. The graffiti abatement official may cause the removal of graffiti from private property should the property owner or person in control fail to remove graffiti after the required notice. The city or its authorized representative is expressly authorized to enter private property and abate graffiti.

Documents

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