70-16 Chronic Nuissance Amendments

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Chronic Problem Property Ordinance Amendments Page 4 to the manager /owner /operator who is doing business at the location, when the property address has been subject to a minimum of three (3) verified valid complaints and /or ordinance citations and /or letters issued by the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Code Eaf feeme t Depa tmen4 the Department of Code Enforcement and /or the Law Department, advising said person that when the City verifies that said number increases to the thresholds in the definition of a chronic problem property, it shall be so designated. The Police Department, the Fire Department, the Code E :fere meat Depaftmeflt. the Department of Code Enforcement and the Law Department shall update their data on a regular and consistent basis and electronically transmit it to the assigned police officer(s) of the South Bend Police Department whose responsibilities include overseeing the warning notice letter process. (c) When designating a specific property as a chronic property, the assigned police officer(s) in the South Bend Police Department, shall review and verify: 1. The number of police documented calls for service, the number of verified valid complaints and ordinance citations issued by the Police Department to a property address in the applicable sixty (60) or ninety (90) day period; and 2. The number of ordinance citations and /or compliance letters sent bye Enf r^°in°~+ DepaAmen the Department of Code Enforcement and the Fire Department. As well as, the number of compliance letters sent by the Police Department and the Law Department to a property address in the applicable sixty (60) or ninety (90) day period; Once designated as a chronic problem property by the assigned police officer(s) in the South Bend Police Department, said property shall remain so designated and tracked on a eempute--iz °a -„a*^° publicly available data set for compliance /enforcement purposes for one (1) year from the date of designation. Said assigped pokee of -fi The Office of Innovation and Technology shall see that the matfbE publicly available data set shall be regularly updated and prominently posted on the City's Open Data Portal Vie. Said designation shall only be removed upon action by the Law Department after reviewing documentation from the Police Department, the Fire Department and the Code Enf r^ °meat Depa *men the Department of Code Enforcement confirming that the subject property has not been the subject of a ver-ified valid complaint or code violation for a period of not less than three hundred sixty five (365) continuous days, unless credited per the regulations set forth in Section 13 -158. (d) The South Bend Police Department shall notify in writing to the property owner, and in the case of the property being zoned commercial, industrial or planned unit development to the manager /owner /operator who is doing business at that location, that his/her property location has been designated as a chronic problem property. Said notification shall be delivered in person by an individual designated by the City by leaving a copy of the notification personally to the person to be notified, by leaving a copy of the notification as set forth below, with such notification being documented by the City in their records; or by sending the notice to the property owner, and in the case of the property being zoned commercial, planned unit development to the manager /owner /operator who is doing business at that location, by priority mail which is tracked