HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESO 9023Resolution No. 9023
Resolution of the Council ofthe City of Palo Alto Declaring
Weeds to be a Nuisance and Setting January 11,2010 for a
Public Hearing for Objections to Proposed Weed
Abatement
WHEREAS, weeds, as defined in Section 8.08.010(b) of the Palo Alto Municipal
Code, are anticipated to develop during calendar year 2010 upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, and
parcels of private property within the City of Palo Alto sufficient to constitute a public nuisance as a
fire menace when dry or are otherwise combustible, or otherwise to constitute a menace to the public
health as noxious or dangerous.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does hereby RESOLVE as
follows:
SECTION 1. Weeds, as defined in Section 8.08.01O(b) of the Palo Alto Municipal
Code, which are anticipated to develop during calendar year 201 0 upon streets, alleys, sidewalks, and
parcels of private property within the City of Palo Alto, are hereby found and determined to
constitute a public nuisance. Such nuisance is anticipated to exist upon some of the streets, alleys,
sidewalks, and parcels of private property within the City, which are shown, described, and
delineated on the several maps of the properties in said City which are recorded in the Office of the
County Recorder of the County of Santa Clara, reference in each instance for the description of any
particular street, alley, or parcel of private property being hereby made to the several maps aforesaid,
and, in the event of there being several subdivision maps on which the same lots are shown,
reference is hereby made to the latest subdivision map.
SECTION 2. THEREFORE, IT IS ORDERED that the said public nuisance be
abated in the manner provided by Chapter 8.08 ofthe Palo Alto Municipal Code:
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a public hearing shall be held on Monday, the 11 th
day ofJ anuary, 2010, at the hour of7 :OOpm, or as soon thereafter as the matter may be heard, at the
Council Chambers of the Civic Center of said City, at which the Council shall hear obj ections to the
proposed weed abatement of such weeds and give any objections due consideration;
IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the Fire Chief of the City of Palo Alto is directed to
give notice ofthe public hearing in the time, manner and form provided in Chapter 8.08 ofthe Palo
Alto Municipal Code.
SECTION 3. Unless the nuisance is abated without delay by the destruction and
removal of such weeds, the work of abating such nuisance will be done by the County of Santa Clara
Department of Agriculture and Resource Management Office on behalf of the City of Palo Alto, and
the expenses thereof assessed upon the lots and lands from which, and/or in the front and rear of
which, such weeds shall have been destroyed and removed.
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SECTION 4. The Santa Clara County, County Counsel has detennined the Weed
Abatement Program to be categorically exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental
Quality Act ("CEQA") pursuant to CEQA Guidelines section 15308.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: December 14,2009
AYES: Barton, Burt, Drekmeier, Espinosa, Kishimoto, Klein, Morton, Schmid, Yeh
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTENTIONS:
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: APPROVED:
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