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Home My WebLink About2008/03/10 Board of Appeals & Advisors Minutes MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING BOARD OF APPEALS AND ADVISORS CITY OF CHULA VISTA, CALIFORNIA March 10, 2008 Conference Room #137 inside Public Services Building 5:15 PM 276 Fourth Ave.. Chula Vista, CA 91910 MEMBERS PRESENT: Chairman West, Vice-Chairman Turner, Members: Buddingh, Buencamino- Andrews, Flach, Lopez MEMBERS ABSENT: None CITY STAFF PRESENT: Brad Remp, Assistant Director/ Building Official of Planning and Building; Doug Leeper, Code Enforcement Manager; Eileen Dimagiba, Senior Office Specialist (Recording Secretary) OTHERS PRESENT: None CALL MEETING TO ORDER: Chairman West called meeting to order at 5:15 PM ROLL CALL: Members present constituted a quorum. ' i 1 DECLARATION OF EXCUSEDIUNEXCUSED ABSENTEEISM: None 2 APPROVAL OF MINUTES: MSC (Buddingh/West) (6-0) motion to approve the minutes of October 8, 2007 Regular Meeting. 3 NEW BUSINESS: A. Code Enforcement Powerpoint Presentation- By Doug Leeper Doug Leeper, Code Enforcement Manager presented a Powerpoint presentation on our current Code Enforcement Programs and the Code Enforcement Section Topics of the presentation included Programs and Statistics, Enforcement Process and Options, New Programs, Service Reductions, Trends and Hot Topics, Full Cost Recovery & Fines and ' Assessments, The Code Enforcement Team, .and questions at the end of the presentation. 4 MEMBERS COMMENTS/CHAIRMAN'S COMMENTSIREPORTS: • Member Turner asked about the requirements for yard (garage) sales and Doug stated that residents are required to apply fora "free" garage sale permit with the Planning and Building Department and residents are allowed to have 2 sales per calendar year and each garage sale permit good for 10 days each Member Turner also asked if any feedback has been received from the HOAs on this new Residential Abandoned Properties program and Doug said that real estate agents and HOAs are behind this ordinance. The ones who are against this are the lending industries and their attorneys, and the people looking to rent out these vacant properties for more money, knowing that they are losing these properties soon to foreclosure • Member Buencamino-Andrews asked Doug if Chula Vista is the only City in California with this type of ordinance and Doug replied that we are the first city in the country with this type of proactive ordinance Several cities throughout the country have contacted Doug far advice on creating a similar ordinance like this one for theirjurisdictions Board of Appeals & Advisors Page 2 March 10 2008 Meeting Minutes • Doug noted that HOAs aren't able to enforce CC&R's on these vacant properties because they have difficulties finding the correct contact person for these banks that own these properties and Member Turner commented that he is on the HOA board for San Miguel Ranch and he and his HOA board has stumbled upon these problems as well. • Brad commented that compared to otherjurisdictions of our size, we have half the number of Code Enforcement staff that they do • Member Turner commented that HOAs will most likely be able to help out somewhat with the violations listed on the "Service Reductions" list for Code Enforcement. He also asked about the Volunteer Program • Member Buddingh asked why doesn't the City Attorney collect the big amounts of FCR, fines, and penalties assessed for Code Enforcement, and Doug said that we are currently discussing the probability of this happening, hopefully soon • Member Flach asked about the Code Enforcement fines and penalties assessed in relation to the City's current budget crisis, and Brad responded by saying that fines and penalties are assessed only when necessary and only to motivate them into compliance, and that Code Enforcement is not in the "business of making money" • Member Flach commented that this was a great presentation on Code Enforcement and asked if something like this presentation can be put together as a short article in the Chula Vista newspaper about what exactly Code Enforcement does, and Brad and Doug said that we've done something like that in the past in "The Spotlight", and it's a great suggestion 5 BUILDING OFFICIAL'S COMMENTS/REPORTS: A Next month, we will have an appeal for a Fire Department requirement and a staff report will be done by the Fire Department and distributed to members before our next month's meeting. B Recommendation on Adoption of the Urban Wildlife intertace will also be discussed in the coming months, Deadline is July 1~', 2008 6 COMMUNICATIONS (PUBLIC REMARKSI WRITTEN CORRESPONDENCEI: None 7 ADJOURNMENT: MSU (Buencamino-Andrews/West) (6-0) adjournment of meeting at 6:24 p m to the next regular meeting in the Planning and Building Conference Room #137 on April 14, 2008 ~ BRAD REMP, C.B.O. ASST. DIR. OF PLAN G & BUILDING/ BUILDING OFFICIAL SECRETARY TO THE BOARD OF APPEALS & ADVISORS MI UTE TAKE BY: EILEEN DIMAGIBA, SR. OFFICE SPECIALIST PLANNING & BUILDING DEPARTMENT (RECORDING SECRETARY)