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BUSINESS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
YAKIMA, WASHINGTON
AGENDA STATEMENT
Item No. 11.
For Meeting of: June 20, 2023
ITEM TITLE: Update on condition of structures on W Nob Hill Blvd in the Vicinity
of S 30th Ave
SUBMITTED BY: Joan Davenport, Community Development Director
*Tony Doan, Supervising Code Inspector
SUMMARY EXPLANATION:
At the May 16, 2023 City Council meeting, during the vacant building report agenda item, Council
requested staff to investigate the condition of some structures on W Nob Hill Blvd in the vicinity of
S. 30th Ave.Attached is a memorandum from staff.
ITEM BUDGETED: NA
STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Neighborhood and Community Building
APPROVED FOR SUBMITTAL BY THE CITY MANAGER
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upaate on vacant structures on West Nob Hill Bled 6/9/2023 Backup Material
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Memorandum
DATE: June 9, 2022
TO: Yakima City Council
COPY: Bob Harrison, City Manager
Joan Davenport, Community Development Director
FROM: Glenn Denman, Code Administration Manager
RE: Vacant Structures, Nob Hill Blvd
During the May 16t" 2023 Council Meeting, Councilmember Byers inquired into the status of two
properties on W Nob Hill Blvd in the vicinity of S 30t" Ave. The properties contain several
structures that are vacant, boarded, and appear dilapidated. Code Compliance has determined
that the structures and property are in violation of several statutes of the International Property
Maintenance Code including structure habitability and other exterior property nuisances. Non-
Compliance Notices have were sent to property owners with pending deadlines expiring June
14t". If nuisances are not abated, the next step will be sending a Notice and Order to abate all
nuisances.
Another question posed by Council is how long a structure may be left boarded and secured, as
some have been left boarded for long periods of time. Typically, if a structure is uninhabited and
unsecure, it is considered an "imminent danger" by the IPMC. In such cases, boarding and
securing the structure abates the imminent danger. However, if the structure does not have
other visible violations, it has not necessarily been considered uninhabitable'. Such structures
have been allowed to remain in a non-dangerous (boarded) but possibly uninhabitable
condition.
Remedy:
A recent examination of the IPMC (and in consultation with the Legal Department), code
administration staff has determined that an approach to take would be if a structure is both an
imminent danger and uninhabitable, a notice will address both at the same time. Notices will be
2-tiered, addressing the immediate dangerous condition and other non-immediately dangerous
nuisance conditions related to the structure2. With this approach, boarding the structure may
abate the imminent danger, but other less portentous nuisances will continue to be enforced
until the entire structure is brought into compliance. The 2-tiered notices will contain a deadline
for abating imminent dangers, and a separate deadline requiring other habitability violations to
be abated with appropriate deadlines for each.
I. The IPMC allows a level of assumption to be made on habitability based on exterior
conditions.
2. Other non-structure nuisances are typically included in the same notice.
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