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CITY OF NORTH OLMSTED <br />ORDINANCE NO. 2008 - 62 <br />BY: Councilmember Orlowski <br />AN ORDINANCE CREATING NEW CHAPTER 561 OF THE <br />GENERAL OFFENSES CODE, ENTITLED "CRIMINAL ACTIVITY <br />NUISANCES, " IN ORDER TO PROVIDE FOR THE ABATEMENT <br />OF PUBLIC NUISANCES AND THE RECOVERY OF CITY <br />RESPONSE COSTS INCURRED AS THE RESULT OF THE <br />MULTIPLE RECURRENCE OF SUCH NUISANCE ACTIVITIES ON <br />RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY LOCATED IN THE CITY OF NORTH <br />OLMSTED, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AS AMENDED. <br />WHEREAS, public nuisance activities conducted in residential neighborhoods of <br />the City of North Olmsted adversely affect the health, safety and welfare of residents and <br />property owners in the City of North Olmsted; and <br />WHEREAS, such public nuisance activities, particularly when they are permitted <br />to continue or recur on residential properties within the City of North Olmsted, negatively <br />affect property values in and the livability and vitality of the City's residential <br />neighborhoods, as well as the quality of life for individual residents in the City; and <br />WHEREAS, such public nuisance activities, if ignored or left unaddressed, lead <br />to the deterioration of neighborhoods and the flight of responsible homeowners from the <br />City; and <br />WHEREAS, the City accordingly has an obligation and a duty to abate such <br />public nuisances in an effective way in order to protect the health, safety and welfare of <br />the City's residents and property owners; and <br />WHEREAS, owners of property who create, maintain, permit or otherwise suffer <br />to exist public nuisances on their property located within the City of North Olmsted on <br />multiple occasions cause the City to expend out of the ordinary general fund resources, in <br />the form of multiple safety and,tor service department responses, in order to abate such <br />nuisances; and <br />WHEREAS, this Council has received and reviewed information and reports from <br />the Department of Public Safety regarding the specific costs incurred by the City in <br />responding on multiple occasions to the same residential property in the City in order to <br />address criminal nuisance activities; and <br />WHEREAS, it is the desire of this Council to provide a new procedure for the <br />abatement of such nuisances activities in the City of North Olmsted, to declare certain <br />criminal activities to constitute public nuisances, and to provide for the City to recover its