Amending Various Sections of Article 12 of Chapter 13 of the South Bend Municipal Code Addressing Chronic Problem Property Regulations

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Chronic Problem Property Ordinance Amendments Page 4 (b) The South Bend Police Department shall send a warning notice letter to any property owner, and the applicable property address, and in the case of the property being zoned commercial, planned unit development 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) verged valid complaints and /or ordinance citations and /or letters issued by the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Gode Eaf ,.^°,..,°„+ n °r^ ,,aenl 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 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 verged 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 by the God 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 publicly available data set for compliance /enforcement purposes for one (1) year from the date of designation. Said assigned pollee eft; ^ °rr °` The Office of Innovation and Technology shall see that the malr4x publicly available data set shall be regularly updated and prominently posted on the City's Open Data Portal website. 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-eeme + Depaftme the Department of Code Enforcement confirming that the subject property has not been the subject of aver-ired 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 mailed to the applicable property address and 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