Ordinance No. O21-16 enhances parking regulations within Glendale, prohibiting recreational vehicles from parking on streets or alleyways for a period more than forty-eight hours. In this case, a “recreational vehicle” is a vehicular portable home designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational, and vacation uses. A few examples would be, a motor home, mini-motor home, recreational van, tent trailer, camper trailer, watercraft on a boat trailer or a truck camper.
Ordinance No. O21-17 strengthens heating and cooling system requirements of residential rental properties in Glendale, ensuring that these systems are in a state of good repair. The result is more safe living conditions for renters in our city. Cooling in our area of Arizona is of paramount importance. Maricopa County Public Health officials reported 25 heat related deaths in 2020 and another 222 under investigation as heat associated deaths.
Ordinance No. O21-18 requires persons owning or occupying a property or a parking lot fronting on any street, alleyway, or public place to not allow grass or weed tripping hazards in sidewalk cracks, curbline openings, or other areas adjacent to a property.
Ordinance No. O21-19 addresses two concerns that have been brought to the City Council. First, the ordinance prohibits the feeding of pigeons on public property within Glendale. Second, this ordinance regulates the length at which temporary holiday decorations may be displayed, allowing for display up to thirty days prior and thirty days after a holiday.
Ordinance No. O21-20 expands the toolkit for city code compliance officials attempting to observe and regulate code violations at private properties. In the past when officials are not invited onto a property, code compliance officials had to observe a code violation from a public street or sidewalk. With this new ordinance, code compliance officials can observe violations from ground level beyond the boundaries of the lot in question and are not limited to just viewing from a fronting public street or sidewalk. This gives officials more options as to where they can see a violation in plain view, while still protecting property owners’ Fourth Amendment rights.
Ordinance No. O21-21 enhances the City Manager’s and Code Compliance Division’s ability to regulate the securement of vacant and abandoned buildings in Glendale. The goal of the revision is to improve aesthetics of vacant buildings through the implementation of the City Manager’s new vacant property securement standards.
Ordinance No. O21-22 clarifies language in the city code regulating dry and dead palm fronds on palm trees. The ordinance requires responsible persons of any property to not allow for any palm tree to have dead or dry palm fronds within ten feet of the ground, a structure, a fence, or anything that may be combustible.
