The city council finds and determines as follows:
(a) The city is interested in the appearance and maintenance of private properties because adequate maintenance and appearance promote property values and improve the general welfare of its citizens.
(b) There exists a need for further emphasis, than currently exists, on property maintenance and sanitation, in that certain conditions, as described in Section 3.20.070, have been found frequently in different locations throughout the city.
(c) The existence of the prohibited activities and unlawful, public nuisance conditions set forth in Section 3.20.070 is injurious and inimical to the public health, safety, and welfare of the residents of the city and results in detrimental effects on the community including creating unsightly appearances of and blighted residential neighborhoods, contributes to deterioration of neighborhoods and lower property values, discourages potential buyers from purchasing homes in, adjacent to, or in the neighborhood with residences with public nuisance conditions, endangers children unprotected from unsecured pools and other attractive nuisances and endangers neighborhoods affected by the resulting squatting, vandalism, burglaries and other crimes.
(d) Unless corrective measures are undertaken to alleviate such conditions and assure the avoidance of future problems in this regard, the public health, safety and general welfare, including the social and economic conditions of the community, will be adversely affected.
(e) The abatement procedures set forth in this chapter are reasonable and afford due process to all affected persons.
(f) The regulation of the uses and abuses of property as described in this chapter reasonably relates to the proper exercise of the police power to protect the health, safety and general welfare of the public.
(Ord. 887 § 1(part), 2009; Ord. 790 § 7 (part), 1999; Ord. 718 § 1 (part), 1994)