Salinas, CA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

03 for any owner, tenant, or occupant to maintain residential or commercial property, occupied or vacant, in a way that shows at least two of several listed conditions that are visible from a public right-of-way or neighboring property and both visually harm the neighborhood and add to its dilapidated appearance. The listed conditions include accumulated weeds, dead vegetation, rubbish, or litter; unpainted or substantially worn exterior paint, except where the architectural style calls for unpainted material; broken or defaced stairs, roofs, foundations, walls, fences, signs, or windows, including graffiti; outdoor storage of household appliances, furniture, boxes, or debris for more than seventy-two consecutive hours; and buildings left vacant more than thirty consecutive days without an active repair permit, an active sale or lease listing, or a code official's hardship extension for probate or disaster.

05 requires written notice mailed and posted at the property, giving the owner between seven and sixty days to start corrective action, with shorter notice allowed for an immediate health or safety threat. Owners can appeal within fifteen calendar days to a hearing officer, and failing to appear waives the hearing and admits the nuisance. 13. 16 backs this with a misdemeanor penalty and a one-thousand-dollar civil penalty for every abatement order after the first within a rolling one-year period, and it lets any neighbor within five hundred feet, or on the same block, sue to abate the nuisance directly once the city has already given notice and the owner has not complied, with the prevailing party recovering attorney's fees.