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DESCRIPTION AND CONDITIONS: On April 22, 1991, Code Enforcement staff sent a Notice of Public Nuisance to Austin J. Taylor, owner of the subject property, concerning a hazardous public nuisance condition on the subject property. The subject property has a legal description as follows: Parcel No.: 10333900001007000007.0 A parcel of land 25.5 .feet by 201 feet abutting the west side of the south 201 feet of Lot F, Vero Park Subdivision Unit #21.an unrecorded plat. The Respondent was cited for maintaining the property in violation of Chapter 973.01 of the County Land Development Code, which prohibits conditions on property that are. a health and safety hazard to the general public, thereby being a public nuisance. Specifically, the public nuisance was described as follows: Dead australian pine trees that were a health and safety hazard to the surrounding single-family residences. The subject property was also posted as set forth in Section 973.09 of the County Code, giving the Respondent thirty (30) days to abate the nuisance. The nuisance violation was not abated within the required thirty (30) day time period. Therefore, in accordance with Section 973.04(2), County Code, County Personnel (i.e., the Road & Bridge Division) cleared the nuisance violation. Section 973.06(1) of the County Code requires that the cost of a County nuisance abatement action shall be calculated and reported to the Board of County Commissioners, who, by resolution, shall assess such costs against the subject property. This matter is presented herein to the Board for consideration to adopt said resolution. ALTERNATIVES AND ANALYSIS: Section 973.06(1), Public Nuisances, of the Indian River --Land Development Code specifically reads as follows: "After abatement of a nuisance by the County, the cost thereof to the County as to each lot, parcel or tract of land shall be calculated and reported to the Board of County Commissioners. Thereupon, the Board of County Commissioners, by resolution, shall assess such costs against such lots, parcel, or tract of land. Such resolution shall describe the land and state the cost of abatement, which shall include an administrative cost of seventy-five dollars ($75.00) per lot. Such assessment shall be legal, valid, and binding obligation upon the property against which made until paid. The assessment shall be due and payable thirty (30) days after the mailing of a Notice of Assessment, after which interest shall accrue at the rate of twelve (12) per cent per annum on any unpaid portion thereof." Cost for equipment use and labor, as indicated by the Road & Bridge Division, plus the $75.00 administrative cost, calculates to be: Labor R. & B. $ 525.12 Tree Removal: $ 41690.00 Administrative Fee: $ 75.00 Total: $ 5,290.12 7 JAN 28 1992 P0oK � Fr1�C •�.