(A) It is the intent of the City Council in adopting this chapter to provide a comprehensive method for the identification and abatement of public nuisances within the city to protect the health, welfare and safety of residents and to promote the maintenance of real property to improve the livability, appearance and social and economic conditions of the city. Public nuisances can create visual blight or lead to neighborhood decline, causing detriment to surrounding properties and depreciating the value of those properties. In addition, as to abandoned, unsecured or partially constructed buildings, the City Council finds that such buildings represent threats to public health, safety and welfare because they invite trespassers, represent fire hazards because a fire can begin unobserved, can become harborages for vectors and rodents, can become littered or dumping ground or can encourage criminal activity because the property is unsupervised.
(B) Provisions of this chapter are supplementary and complementary to all other provisions of the Antioch Municipal Code, state law, and any law cognizable at common law or in equity, and nothing herein shall be read, interpreted or construed in any manner so as to limit any existing right or power of the city to abate any nuisance or initiate any action provided for by law.
(Ord. 2010-C-S, passed 2-26-08)