San Clemente, CA Property Maintenance: Property Blight (2026)

030 opens by declaring it a public nuisance for anyone owning, leasing, occupying, or controlling premises in the City to maintain them so that any of a long list of conditions exist. Subsection A reaches buildings or structures which are structurally unsafe or which are not provided with adequate egress so as to constitute a fire hazard, or which are otherwise dangerous to human life by reason of inadequate maintenance, dilapidation, obsolescence or abandonment. Subsection D covers buildings that are abandoned, boarded up, partially destroyed, or left in an unreasonable state of partial construction, and Subsection E reaches deteriorated paint and coatings causing visual blight or inviting decay, cracking, or termite infestation.

Other subsections separately reach overgrown vegetation harboring vermin, dead or hazardous trees, broken windows, accumulated trash or debris visible from the street, discarded furniture, and deteriorated parking lots, among some two dozen enumerated conditions. 040 gives the responsible person only twenty-four hours after notice to remove and abate it; if the owner or occupant refuses or neglects to do so, the City can abate the nuisance itself and recover the full cost from the owner or occupant through civil action, on top of any other penalty.

030 separately incorporates structural-safety criteria drawn from the Uniform Building Code, covering damaged foundations, inadequate exits, and buildings unfit for human habitation, giving code enforcement staff an independent technical basis to condemn a severely deteriorated structure beyond the general blight language.