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

Section 8.44.050 opens by declaring the listed acts and conditions on any lot or parcel in the City of San Jacinto to be unlawful public nuisances, and it applies to improved and unimproved property alike. Subsection B covers buildings and structures. Item 1 reaches buildings that are abandoned, boarded up, partially destroyed, or left in a state of partial construction for an unreasonable period, along with buildings whose exterior paint is mostly worn off or whose roofs are badly weathered. Item 3 reaches buildings, walls and other structures damaged by fire, flood, earthquake or decay to the point that they cannot be economically repaired to meet the building code in effect in the city. Item 4 reaches unoccupied buildings left unlocked or unsecured, or boarded up with a method or materials the fire and life safety department has not approved. Item 5 adds broken windows that create hazardous conditions and invite trespassers. Item 8 ties the nuisance rules to the unsafe or substandard conditions defined in the uniform construction codes the city has adopted. In Chapter 15.04, § 15.04.060 adopts the Uniform Code for the Abatement of Dangerous Buildings, 1997 Edition, and § 15.04.050 adopts the Uniform Housing Code, 1997 Edition.

The code enforcement officer, defined in § 8.44.020 as the city manager and authorized representatives, finds the nuisance, notifies the owner, lessee or occupant, and sets an abatement period of not less than ten days under § 8.44.070. The owner can abate voluntarily by rehabilitation, repair, removal or demolition and must tell the enforcement officer, who then inspects. An owner who objects can ask for a hearing before the community preservation committee, which consists of the planning director, the city engineer and the finance director or their designees. If the nuisance stays, § 8.44.180 authorizes the city to abate it by city forces or private contract, and § 8.44.220 turns the confirmed cost into a special assessment and lien under Government Code Section 38773.5. Where a building is an immediate hazard, § 8.44.080 allows emergency abatement with whatever notice the circumstances reasonably allow, or none.