City Council has directed City staff to prepare and bring forward for its consideration major amendments to Title 18 of the Loveland Municipal Code. Since January 2000, City staff has been negotiating a scope of work and schedule with Clarion Associates to assist the City in revising Title 18. At the March 21st meeting City Council directed City staff to renegotiate the scope of work to ensure that adoption of the code revisions could take place by the end of December 2000. During the week of March 20th, City staff meet with Clarion representatives, but Clarion was unwilling to commit to a condensed schedule where the formal public hearing process could commence by the beginning of November 2000. A scope of work and schedule has been developed that would result in a public draft of the proposed code amendments being ready to start the formal public hearing process with Planning Commission by the beginning of November 2000.
Staff recommends tabling the ordinance on second reading.
Public hearing and ordinance on second reading amending Section 18.68.045 of the Loveland Municipal Code concerning the enforcement of the building and zoning codes of the City of Loveland. In July of 1999, the City Council adopted an ordinance providing guidance concerning the procedures to be followed in the enforcement of the building and zoning codes of the City. Among these was the decision to restrict enforcement to citizen complaints only when the complaining citizen provided his or her name. Anonymous complaints were not to be enforced. In recent months, the police department and code enforcement officer have received criticism from citizens who wish to report code violations without leaving their name for fear of retaliation by neighbors or landlords.