19E - FILE RECEIVERSHIP FOR 1221 N HARBOR AND 335 E ADAMS

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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: OCTOBER 7, 2014 TITLE: AUTHORIZATION TO FILE RECEIVERSHIP ACTIONS AGAINST OWNERS OF REAL PROPERTIES LOCATED AT 1221 N. HARBOR AND 335 E. ADAMS, SANTA ANA {STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 3,3) CITY MANAGER RECOMMENDED ACTION CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: APPROVED ❑ As Recommended ❑ As Amended ❑ Ordinance on 1$' Reading ❑ Ordinance on 2otl Reading ❑ Implementing Resolution ❑ Set Public Hearing For CONTINUED TO FILE NUMBER Authorize the City Attorney to engage special legal counsel, Silver and Wright, to file receivership actions against owners of the real properties located at 1221 N. Harbor and 335 E. Adams in the City of Santa Ana. DISCUSSION The City has recently used the California Health and Safety Code Receivership option to successfully resolve difficult code enforcement matters in both commercial and residential areas. Receivership is a legal process through which control of a piece of real property is temporarily taken from the owners and placed with a court- appointed officer: the Receiver. These receiverships are used primarily for abandoned and substandard properties where the owner has a history of noncompliance with a city's code enforcement efforts or in emergency situations where real property presents an immediate threat to health and safety. The use of the receivership option is a dramatic, immediate and comprehensive process that eliminates slum conditions or habitually substandard properties at no expense to the referring agency when it is the prevailing party. This process also communicates to the public that the City is actively protecting residents and tenants from dangerous conditions created by absentee or recalcitrant property owners. Attached are fact sheets concerning the real properties at 1221 N. Harbor and 335 E. Adams. Community Preservation has identified both of these properties as candidates for receivership actions. 19E -1