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A Statement for the Record & Request for Further Action
It is with appreciation to our Council District 7 Representative Ms. Holley Cousens.,
Council District 4 Representative Dr, Kay Funk, the HCNB Council Committee., and
Legal Department staff member Senior Assistant City Attorney Ms. Brooke Goosman
that we will have a definition for "apparently inoperable" in Title 9, Traffic that will
include unlicensed vehicles. However, our State's mandated 3 out of 4 conditions still
must be met to certify a vehicle "junk".
Not all nuisance (derelict) vehicles meet our State's burdensome definition for "junk". If
nothing more is done, the majority of other nuisance vehicles we have shown to be a —
significant environmental blight in our neighborhoods will remain unregulated, 71 his Is
Vhy numerous ioca7i governments in our State have adopted their own more restrictive
:ibisance ve-hicle standards as is allowed by State law (RCW 46,55.240), Wapato and
O"siCe. for example, require just two conditions be met for legal action to be taken.
These local laws are there to reduce the aesthetic impacts of outdoor storage of
".apparently inoperable" vehicles and other nuisance vehicles in various states of disrepair
in residential neighborhoods, These local laws assure the continued integrity and vitality
of residential nei-_Iaborhoods and icxotect resii)
local governments have determined that protecting neighborhood aesthetics, integrity,
vitality, and property values outweighs the interest of those wanting to store their
inoperable and other nuisance vehicles outside in full public view.
We have shown there is a clear need to adopt legislation to regulate all derelict vehicles
being permanently stored outside on private property in our residential neighborhoods.
Wo� also believe that all nuisance vehicles should be addressed as readily and rigorously
as a merchant's nuisance shopping cart.
It is after extensive research we recommend to the HCNB Committee to take the next
step and instruct Staff to prepare amendments to YMC Title I I. Buildings that will
include the International Property Maintenance Code with all applicabk amendments,
Adopting the IPMC will address our residential neighborhood nuisance vehicle problems
and 6&r, it provides the City a sound and judicially tested regulatory process to abate
nuisance vehicles upheld by the Eastern Washington Appellate Court. The following is
provided for verification and review: Case # 30996-7-111, Thompson v. Kittitas County..
The Yakima County Commissioners adopted by Ordinance in July of 2016 the 2015
IPMC with applicable amendments that addresses nuisance vehicles. This Ordinance
became effective immediatel - v on imssaae. The following link is provided for verification
and review: https://yakimacounty.us/DocumentCenterNiew/I 1257/10-2016.
Adoption of the IPMC will place the City in -step with Yakima County and Union Gap in
having the same nuisance vehicle enforcement "tools" available that can be uniformly
applied across the entire designated Yakima Urban Area,
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