Placement: First Reading of Ordinances / Public Hearing
Action Requested: Motion / Vote
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Ordinance 25-82, Public Hearing, Chapter 41 - Property Maintenance - Text Amendment
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Submitted By: Carmen A. Capezzuto, Director, Neighborhood Services Department (NSD)
Strategic Plan Link: The City's Goal of safe, clean, and beautiful.
Executive Summary (General Business): This ordinance includes the application of a city-initiated text amendment to Chapter 41 of the City of Port St. Lucie Code of Ordinances which regulates residential property maintenance. These revisions include prohibiting the storage of motor vehicles, recreational vehicles and utility trailers on unimproved vacant lots, providing for operability standards for recreational vehicles and utility trailers, prohibiting the accumulation or burial of land clearing debris on unimproved vacant lots, requiring swales to be sodded and stabilized at all times, and adding a definition for “Failed Culvert Pipe”.
Presentation Information: Neighborhood Services staff will provide a presentation.
Staff Recommendation: Move that the Council approve the city-initiated text amendment to Chapter 41 of the City of Port St. Lucie Code of Ordinances as recommended.
Alternate Recommendations:
1. Move that the Council amend the recommendation and approve the text amendment to Chapter 41.
2. Move that the Council provide staff direction.
Background: The Neighborhood Services Department has been reviewing ordinances and recommending updates to ensure property maintenance standards remain clear, enforceable, and responsive to community needs. NSD aims to be a leader in recognizing how the City’s growth can impact neighborhoods and how ordinances must be adjusted to address new or lingering issues to help preserve public health, safety and quality of life.
Issues/Analysis: The department began by researching residential property maintenance codes of several similar municipalities throughout the state before gathering sections that could be adopted to improve areas of our current ordinance. After internal review NSD staff met with several departments including the City Attorney’s Office to review and provide language for the ordinance revision.
Financial Information: N/A
Special Consideration: A six-month public information campaign will take place before enforcement of the new standards goes into effect.
Location of Project: N/A
Business Impact Statement: N/A
Attachments: 1. Ordinance 25- __ Chapter 41 Property Maintenance
2. PowerPoint
NOTE: All of the listed items in the “Attachment” section above are in the custody of the City Clerk. Any item(s) not provided in City Council packets are available upon request from the City Clerk.
Internal Reference Number: 25262-12
Legal Sufficiency Review:
Reviewed by Richard Shiller, Deputy City Attorney. Approved as to Legal form and sufficiency by Richard Berrios, City Attorney.