TITLE:
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APPROVE CERTIFICATION OF SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS FOR THE COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT CIVIL CITATIONS FOR MUNICIPAL CODE VIOLATIONS
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DEPARTMENT: FINANCE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTED BY: CAROL MOLINA, FINANCE DIRECTOR
CONTACT INFORMATION: CAROL MOLINA, FINANCE DIRECTOR, (714) 754-5243
RECOMMENDATION:
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Staff recommends the City Council:
1. Conduct a Public Hearing.
2. Adopt the attached resolution approving the certification of special assessments for delinquent civil fines for municipal code violations in relation to unlicensed illicit cannabis and other municipal code violations.
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BACKGROUND:
Since the legalization of recreational use of cannabis in 2016 under Proposition 64, illegal cannabis operations (dispensaries) have proliferated throughout the State. The participants in these operations, including property owners and employees, have conducted business in cities without regard to local ordinances, state permits and state building and fire codes. Specifically, these dispensaries have disregarded the ordinances regulating cannabis uses enacted by the voters of the City (Measures X and Q) and the City Council - all to the detriment of the general public, as well as the legal and City-permitted cannabis businesses currently or soon to be operating in the City.
The City has attempted to curb illegal and unlicensed cannabis operations that have been operating throughout the City, as well as other municipal code violations by issuing citations for these violations, which include operating without a business license, lack of required building permits, and operating an unlicensed cannabis dispensary.
All commercial, residential, public assembly, and other buildings within a governmental jurisdiction are required to be constructed in accordance with the jurisdiction's municipal code provisions. Permitting regulates construction and property use to ensure safe, healthy, efficient, and accessible environments for human occupancy a...
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