Court Opinion

ID: 9746582
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:28:11.066235+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:15.089458
License: Public Domain

BEDSWORTH, Acting P. J., Concurring.
I share the misgivings of my colleagues about the procedural due process problems of this ordinance. I fully agree it does not pass constitutional muster in regard to those considerations. But I would be remiss if I did not also express my concern the ordinance may have more carcinogenic problems than we discuss in this opinion.
I am not yet convinced this ordinance does not suffer from other, more fundamental constitutional infirmities than procedural due process. I am concerned, inter alia, about its sweeping requirement that all occupants of the premises must be evicted for the sins of one, its disparate treatment of property owners and renters (our record reflects no nuisance abatement efforts against the owners of property for similar crimes), and the Damoclean substantive due process issue which hangs over this statutory scheme.
*11Since we have resolved the matter on other grounds, I do not know how those concerns will play out. I may yet become convinced they too are also resolvable. But if the city chooses to revise the ordinance to address its procedural due process problems, I encourage it to give more thought to these other issues as well.