Ord 2024-012 - Municipal Code Amendments

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any unimproved parcel of land. (k) PROPERTY. “Property” shall mean all real property, including, but not limited to, the entire premises, parking lots, sidewalks, gutter, driveways, walkways and shall include any building and structure located on such property. (l) REGISTERED/REGISTRATION. A current, valid California Registration for a vehicle conforming to California Vehicle Code Sections 4000 or 9840 et seq. for boats. (m) STREET. “Street” shall mean the full width or the right-of-way of any public or private street accessible to the public, including the sidewalk, whether publicly or privately maintained and whether or not such street has been accepted as and declared to be part of the City system of streets, including streets forming a part of the State Highway System. “Street” also includes any easements where the City is the grantee of the easement and property owned by the City of San Leandro. (n) VACANT LOT. “Vacant lot” shall mean any undeveloped property without an approved or permitted use or structure. (o) VECTOR. “Vector” includes any animal or insect capable of transmitting the causative agent of disease or capable of producing human discomfort or injury, including, but not limited to, mosquitoes, flies, mites, ticks, other arthropods, rodents and other vertebrates. (p) VEHICLE. “Vehicle” shall mean a device by which any person or property may be propelled, moved or drawn upon a highway, road or body of water, and for the purposes of this Chapter shall include, but not be limited to, automobiles, recreational vehicles, campers, boats, motorcycles and mopeds. (q) ZONING ENFORCEMENT OFFICIAL. “Zoning Enforcement Official” shall mean the Zoning Enforcement Official, as defined in the San Leandro Zoning Code, and their designees. 3-1-105 PURPOSE (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 vacant properties and abandoned, unsecured or partially constructed buildings, the City Council finds that such properties and buildings represent threats to public health, safety and welfare because they invite trespassers, represent fire hazards, 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 San Leandro 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. 3-1-110 RESPONSIBILITY FOR PROPER PROPERTY MAINTENANCE