Oakley Municipal Code Art. 1 Purpose and Intent

The City Council of the City of Oakley hereby finds and determines that it is necessary and appropriate to establish standards for property maintenance that reasonably relate to the proper exercise of the City’s police power and to provide for the abatement of conditions which are offensive or annoying to the senses, detrimental to property values and community appearance, an obstruction to or interference with the comfortable enjoyment of adjacent property or premises, or hazardous or injurious to the health, safety or welfare of the general public in ways which constitute a public nuisance, for each of the following reasons:

a. To safeguard the health, safety and welfare of the community by maintaining property in a good, safe and appropriate condition; and,

b. To enhance the economic value and general welfare of the City and each area within it, through the regulation of the appearance and maintenance of property located within the City of Oakley; and,

c. To promote a sound and attractive community appearance; and,

d. To require a minimum level of maintenance of private property to protect the livability, appearance and social and economic stability of the City, to provide for the maximum use and enjoyment of property in proximity to one another, and to protect the public from the health and safety hazards and the impairments of property values that result from the neglect and deterioration of property; and,

e. To allow for appropriate corrective measures to be taken to address conditions that threaten the public health, safety or welfare by lawfully delineating the circumstances under which such condition(s) may be considered illegal and/or abated.

f. Provisions of this Chapter are supplementary and complementary to all other provisions of the Oakley Municipal Code, state law, and any law cognizable at common law or in equity, and nothing herein shall be read, interpreted or construed in any manner so as to limit any existing right or power of the City to abate any nuisance or initiate any action provided for by law.