(A) The property owner or other person with a legal interest in or affected by the Code Enforcement Officer’s notice may appear and be heard at the hearing scheduled before the City Property Standards Board. An aggrieved person may present facts or evidence that the subject rental unit is not defective or in violation of this chapter. The affected person may be represented by an attorney and may bring witnesses or other evidence to the hearing for the City Property Standards Board’s consideration. The Board will receive evidence from affected and interested persons together with the evidence and findings of the Code Enforcement Officer.
(B) Thereafter, the City Property Standards Board will issue its findings and an order with its determination of whether or not the structure is defective and in violation of this chapter.
(1) Findings and determinations will be made with sufficient clarity and specificity so as to identity the conditions which constitute the defect, and therefore, a violation of this chapter.
(2) The order shall describe the remedial repairs, maintenance or demolitions which the City Property Standards Board determines are necessary to remedy the defects and the violations of this chapter.
(3) The order shall specify the time frame within which the owner or affected person with a legal interest shall have to remedy the defects and the violations of this chapter.
(C) The owner or other affected person with legal interest may agree and consent to the findings and the order of the City Property Standards Board. In such an event, the owner or affected person with legal interest will sign the findings and order, which shall become binding on the owner or affected person with legal interest without further action by the City Property Standards Board.
(Ord. 2020-11, passed 12-7-2020)