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Home My WebLink About07062017 Code Enforcement Board Hearing AgendaAgenda for the Code Enforcement Board of the City of Pasco, Washington July 06, 2017 at 7:00 pm A. CALL TO ORDER B. ROLL CALL a. Board Members Present C. ADOPTION OF MINUTES D. HEARINGS a. Administration of Oaths b. Hearings Scheduled CEB2017-0425 213 W CLARK ST GUEST HOUS - ALFREDO R GARCIA, owner Abel Corona, Code Enforcement Officer Description: Failed to renew rental license for 2017. PMC 5.78.010 (Renewal) Violation: Failure to renew your City of Pasco rental license(s). Corrective Action: Renew your City of Pasco rental license and pay all outstanding fees and late fees. Licenses are to be renewed annually on the first regular business day of January, but in no case later than the last regular working day of February each year. CEB2017-0485 903 LINCOLN DR - THONGKHAM KHAMPHOUMY, owner Debbie Scott, Code Enforcement Officer Description: EXPIRED PERMIT #20690 AND NO PERMIT FOR SHED IN THE REAR OF THIS PROPERTY. PMC 16.04.010 (1) Violation: Failure to secure a City of Pasco building permit. (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue all construction activities and submit an application for a building permit from the City of Pasco (please call (509) 543-5726 for information on permit requirements). If no permit can be obtained, unpermitted construction must be removed. Description: ILLEGAL HOME OCCUPATION (AUTO REPAIR) AT THIS LOCATION. PMC 25.66.040 (1) (1) Violation: AUTO REPAIR BUSINESS AT THIS LOCATION. Home occupation is not CLEARLY subordinate to the principal use of the property as a residence. (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue all home occupation activities. Description: REAR YARD HAS TARPS COVERING AUTO REPAIR BUSINESS, STORAGE OF JUNK VEHICLES AND AUTO PARTS ETC. PMC 25.66.040 (2) (1) Violation: Home occupation involves modification of the property that indicates uses other than residential. Page 1 of 5 CEB Agenda (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue all modification of the property that would indicate that the property is being used for anything other than a residence. Description: TWO OCCUPIED RV'S IN REAR YARD. PMC 25.69.040 (1) (1) Violation: Occupying recreational vehicle(s) overnight while not in a recreational vehicle park. (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue occupancy of all recreational vehicles on the property. Description: TWO RECREATIONAL VEHICLES BEING USED AS A PRIMARY RESIDENCE. PMC 25.69.040 (3) VIOLATION: No recreational vehicle shall be used as a primary residence outside of an approved recreational vehicle park CORRECTION: Discontinue occupation of the recreational vehicle in a residential zone and relocate to an approved recreational vehicle park. Description: NUMEROUS JUNK VEHICLES LOCATED ON CITY RIGHT OF WAY, SIDE YARD, REAR YARD AND FRONT YARD PMC 25.70.150 (2) (a-d) (1) Violation: Only one (1) inoperable vehicle may be stored outside of a fully enclosed building on the property in any residential zone. The vehicle shall not be stored upon a public right-of-way or in the front or side yard areas of the property. The vehicle must be locked and secured at all times it is unattended and must be stored on an approved hard surface (i.e. gravel, asphalt or concrete) behind a completely enclosed six (6) foot fence, which is fully sight obscuring. All vehicle parts not properly installed upon a vehicle shall be stored inside a fully enclosed building or within the vehicle itself. (2) Corrective Action: Store all inoperable vehicles within an enclosed building (such as a garage or shed). One vehicle may be stored outside an enclosed building in compliance with the provisions above. All other vehicles must be removed from the property or made operable. Store all vehicle parts in an enclosed building, within the vehicle or remove the parts from the property. Description: STATIONARY PLAY EQUIPMENT PERMANENTLY CONSTRUCTED IN THE FRONT YARD PMC 25.74.030 (2) (1) Violation: Allowing any building, structure, satellite dish, stationary play equipment or clothes lines to be erected, altered, or placed so that any portion thereof is within the required front yard. (2) Corrective Action: Remove all buildings, structures, satellite dishes, stationary play equipment and/or clothes lines from the required front yard portion of your property. Description: VEHICLES PARKED IN FRONT AND REAR YARD AND ON UNAPPROVED SURFACE. PMC 25.78.030 (4) (1) Violation: Vehicles are being parked on an unapproved surface (such as dirt or grass) and/or more than four (4) vehicles at a time are being parked in the front driveway. (2) Corrective Action: Park ALL vehicles on an approved surface such as asphalt, gravel or concrete and/or discontinue parking more than 4 vehicles at a time in the front driveway. Description: POSSIBLE HUMAN WASTE & TOILET PAPER ON WEST SIDE OF PROPERTY IN THE REAR. PMC 6.24.010 (1) Violation: Permitting accumulations of filth, garbage, decaying animals or vegetable matter, etc. Page 2 of 5 CEB Agenda (2) Corrective Action: Remove and lawfully dispose of all garbage, waste, debris and any decayed/decaying matter. Maintain property free from all filth, waste and garbage at all times. Description: FAILURE TO LICENSE THE DOG AT THIS LOCATION. PMC 8.02.030 (1) Violation: Permitting any dog, cat or other animal to trespass on private or public property so as to damage or destroy any property or thing of value, or to deposit fecal matter on any property not that of his owner. (2) Corrective Action: Keep animals on your property at all times and prohibit them from damaging or depositing fecal matter on other properties. Description: REAR YARD IS AN EXTREME FIRE HAZARD. PMC 9.60.020 (1) (1) Violation: Any action or inaction which unreasonably annoying injuring or endangering the comfort, repose, health or safety of others. (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue any act which violates the provisions of this ordinance. Description: EXCESS NUMBER OF VEHICLES AND JUNK VEHICLES BEING STORED ON CITY RIGHT OF WAY. (STREET) PMC 9.60.020 (3) (1) Violation: Unlawfully interfering with, obstructing or tending to obstruct or render dangerous for passage any public right -of-way (i.e. stream, public park, parkway, square, street, highway or sidewalk) in the city. (2) Corrective Action: Remove all items/objects/vehicles/etc. which may be obstructing any public right -of-way. Description: ENTIRE PROPERTY BEING USED AS A JUNKYARD FOR THE STORAGE OF JUNK VEHICLES AND VEHICLE PARTS. PMC 9.60.030 (12) (1) Violation: All places used or maintained as junkyards, or dumping grounds, or for the wrecking or disassembling of automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or for the storing or leaving of worn -out, wrecked or abandoned automobiles, trucks, tractors, or machinery of any kind, or of any of the parts thereof, or for the storing or leaving of any machinery or equipme nt used by contractors or builders or by other persons. (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue wrecking or disassembling automobiles, trucks, etc. Remove and lawfully dispose of all wrecked or abandoned vehicles, machinery, etc. along with any parts thereof. Discontinue the storage of heavy machinery or equipment (i.e. front end loaders, dump trucks, backhoes, etc.) at this property. Description: TRASH, LITTER AND DEBRIS LOCATED ON AND AROUND THIS PROPERTY. PMC 9.60.030 (6) (1) Violation: Any parcel within the City which is filthy, littered or trash-covered due to placing, dropping, disposing, throwing away, or otherwise discarding litter, garbage, refuse, cans, bottles, paper or paper material, metal, organic or inorganic material on areas of the property other than approved garbage containers. (2) Corrective Action: Remove and lawfully dispose of all litter, garbage, junk or vegetative waste on the property. Description: VEHICLE PARTS IN PUBLIC VIEW (FRONT, SIDE AND REAR YARD AREAS). PMC 9.60.030 (9) (1) Violation: Scrap metal, ashes, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, automobile bodies and/or parts, and all such trash or abandoned material that are not kept in approved containers. Page 3 of 5 CEB Agenda (2) Corrective Action: Remove all vehicle parts, scrap metal, machinery, disassembled vehicles, etc. from the property or store these items in an enclosed container or building. Remove and lawfully dispose of all junk items (e.g. any items or which have s erved their intended original purpose) and unusable vehicle parts. CEB2017-1066 2403 W COURT ST - RENT A CENTER INC, owner ALONSO TORRES, Code Enforcement Officer Description: Overgrown shurbs are obstruction sidewalk. PMC 12.12.080 (a) (1) Violation: Trees, plants, shrubs, grass, brush, weeds or other vegetation, or part thereof, which overhang any sidewalk, street or alley , or which are growing in such a manner as to obstruct or impair the free and full use of the sidewalk, street or alley by the pub lic or which have grown and died, are a fire hazard or otherwise a menace to public health, safety, or welfare. (2) Corrective Action: Cut all trees, weeds and other vegetation so that they do not obstruct use of the street/sidewalk by vehicles/pedestrians. Remove and lawfully dispose of all weeds and dead vegetation or any vegetation which has become a fire hazard. Description: Failure to maintain required landscaped areas with healthy living vegetation. PMC 25.75.110 (1) (1) Violation: Failing to maintiain landscaping and/or screening free of weeds and trash and not providing, protecting, and permanently maintaining all landscaping material, areas and plants in a healthy, growing condition, replacing it when necessary. (2) Corrective Action: Remove and lawfully dispose of all weeds and trash and replace any dead/dying plants and other vegetation. Maintain landscaped areas in compliance with the provisions described above. Description: Dead vegetation must be restored or replaced. PMC 9.60.030 (15) (1) Violation: Lawns, shrubs, trees or other plantings that have been dead for more than three (3) frost free months; and any front or rear yard areas on any lot, parcel or tract of land in a residential district that has become populated with wee ds to the extent that it subjects neighboring residential properties to weed growth. (2) Corrective Action: Restore of replace any landscaping elements that have died and remove and lawfully dispose of excess weeds on the property. Description: Noxious Weeds throughout landscaped areas. PMC 9.60.030 (16) (1) Violation: Weeds, noxious weeds, grass, and other vegetation which constitutes a fire hazard, encroaches on sidewalks or neighboring properties, and/or has reached a height of twelve inches (12"). (2) Corrective Action: Eradicate weeds by chemicals, cutting or other acceptable means so that they do not exceed twelve inches (12"), encroach on neighboring properties, constitute a fire hazard, etc. Weeds that are cut or removed by the root must be remov ed from the property and lawfully disposed of. CEB2017-1265 623 N 19TH AVE - MERCEDES M BASTIAN, owner Debbie Scott, Code Enforcement Officer Description: UNPERMITTED HOME OCCUPATION; "AUTO REPAIR AND AUTO BODY WORK AT THIS LOCATION. PMC 25.66.020 (1) Violation: Operating a prohibited and unlicensed home occupation. Page 4 of 5 CEB Agenda (2) Corrective Action: IMMEDIATELY discontinue all prohibited home occupation activities. Prohibited home occupations include: vehicle repair and/or maintenance; rebuilding motors; painting vehicles; welding; sheet metal shops; upholstering; firewood cutting, any group H Occupancy as defined in the International Building and Fire Code adopted by the City and any other uses that are similar in nature. Description: INOPERABLE, DAMAGED VEHICLE STORAGE ONCITY RIGHT OF WAY, DRIVEWAY AND REAR YARD. PMC 25.70.150 (2) (a-d) (1) Violation: Only one (1) inoperable vehicle may be stored outside of a fully enclosed building on the property in any residential zone. The vehicle shall not be stored upon a public right-of-way or in the front or side yard areas of the property. The vehicle must be locked and secured at all times it is unattended and must be stored on an approved hard surface (i.e. gravel, asphalt or concrete) behind a completely enclosed six (6) foot fence, which is fully sight obscuring. All vehicle parts not properly installed upon a vehicle shall be stored inside a fully enclosed building or within the vehicle itself. (2) Corrective Action: Store all inoperable vehicles within an enclosed building (such as a garage or shed). One vehicle may be stored outside an enclosed building in compliance with the provisions above. All other vehicles must be removed from the property or made operable. Store all vehicle parts in an enclosed building, within the vehicle or remove the parts from the property. Description: VEHICLE REPAIR/STORAGE IN DRIVEWAY AND REAR YARD. PMC 25.78.030 (2) (1) Violation: Using the driveway for the storage of equipment or materials, or for the sale, repair or servicing of vehicle(s). (2) Corrective Action: Discontinue any of the actions described above. All vehicle repairs must be for personal vehicles only and must be performed within a fully enclosed building. Equipment and other materials must also be stored within an enclosed building. Description: VEHICLE PARTS STORED AT THIS LOCATION. PMC 9.60.030 (9) (1) Violation: Scrap metal, ashes, bric-a-brac, broken stone or cement, broken crockery, broken glass, broken plaster, automobile bodies and/or parts, and all such trash or abandoned material that are not kept in approved containers. (2) Corrective Action: Remove all vehicle parts, scrap metal, machinery, disassembled vehicles, etc. from the property or store these items in an enclosed container or building. Remove and lawfully dispose of all junk items (e.g. any items or which have served their intended original purpose) and unusable vehicle parts. Description: JUNK VEHICLE STORAG AND VEHICLE PARTS STORED IN THE REAR YARD. PMC 9.62.050 (A) (1) Violation: Permitting the storage of any unauthorized junk motor vehicle or parts thereof on private property. (2) Corrective Action: Remove and lawfully dispose of all junk vehicle(s) and vehicle parts or store them in an enclosed building. c. Amendments d. Dismissals e. Motion E. STAFF REPORT AND OTHER BUSINESS F. ADJOURNMENT This meeting is broadcast live on PSC-TV Channel 191 on Charter Cable and streamed at www.pasco-wa.gov/psctvlive. Audio equipment available for the hearing impaired; contact staff for assistance. Page 5 of 5 CEB Agenda