Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 8.21 Commercial Development Center Cleaning Schedules

The purpose of this chapter is to ensure that commercial development centers are consistently maintained in a clean, sanitary and aesthetically-pleasing manner in order to preserve property values, deter criminal activity, and encourage patronage.

(Ord. 2160 § 2, 2018)

"Cleaning schedule"

shall mean a task sheet which lists cleaning tasks to be accomplished on a regular, fixed schedule upon all areas of the commercial development, including, but not limited to, common areas and parking lots.

"Commercial development center"

shall mean and include shopping centers, strip malls, mixed use projects, or any other collection of commercial spaces that share parking, or access, or have reciprocal easements for parking or vehicular access, whether under a common ownership or divided into multiple ownerships.

"Owner(s)"

shall mean and include any person having legal title to, or who leases, rents, occupies or has charge, control or possession of, any real property in the city, including all persons shown as owners on the last equalized assessment roll of the Los Angeles County assessor's office. "Owners" includes powers of attorney, executors or estates, trustees, or who are court appointed administrators, conservators, guardians or receivers.

(Ord. 2160 § 2, 2018)

A. Owners of commercial development centers shall be required to create and maintain a written cleaning schedule for the property, including, but not limited to, parking lots, and which shall be available for inspection at all times by the city.

B. The cleaning schedule shall include, but not be limited to, a regular and fixed schedule for the following: graffiti removal, building façade cleaning, stairway or elevator cleaning, external landscaping maintenance and litter removal. Litter removal shall be scheduled once every twelve hours, including weekends.

C. All cleaning schedules shall contain the name and phone number of the owner or other person responsible for adherence to the cleaning schedule.

D. Cleaning schedules shall be posted in at least three locations on the commercial development center by the owner and shall be distributed to all tenants.

(Ord. 2160 § 2, 2018)

Violation of any of the provisions of this chapter may be enforced pursuant to Chapter 1.20 of the Hawthorne Municipal Code.

(Ord. 2160 § 2, 2018)