City of Saint Paul - File #: RLH RR 23-18

• File #: RLH RR 23-18
• Version: 7
• Type: Resolution LH Substantial Abatement Order
• Status: Passed
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 1/10/2024
• Title: Fourth Making finding on the appealed substantial abatement ordered for 318 EDMUND AVENUE in Council File RLH RR 21-11. (Public hearing closed, laid over from August 16, 2023)
• Sponsors: Russel Balenger
• Ward: Substantial Abatement Orders, Ward - 1
• Related files: RLH VBR 12-74, CO 21-12, RLH VBR 22-54, RLH RR 21-11, RLH RR 22-1, RLH RR 22-26

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/12/2024	7	Mayor's Office	Signed
1/10/2024	6	City Council	Adopted As Amended	Pass
9/27/2023	6	City Council	Laid Over	Pass
8/16/2023	6	City Council	Laid Over	Pass
7/26/2023	6	City Council	Laid Over	Pass
7/12/2023	5	City Council	Laid Over	Pass
6/21/2023	5	City Council	Laid Over
6/13/2023	4	Legislative Hearings	Referred
5/22/2023	4	Legislative Hearings	Laid Over
5/3/2023	3	City Council	Referred	Pass
4/26/2023	2	City Council	Laid Over
4/25/2023	2	Legislative Hearings	Referred
4/11/2023	1	Legislative Hearings	Referred

Title
Fourth Making finding on the appealed substantial abatement ordered for 318 EDMUND AVENUE in Council File RLH RR 21-11. (Public hearing closed, laid over from August 16, 2023)

Body
AMENDED 1/10/2024

WHEREAS, the City Council adopted RLH RR 21-11 on August 4, 2021 which granted 180 days to repair the structure, correct all of the deficiencies listed in the Order to Abate Nuisance Building and the Code Compliance Report at 318 Edmund Avenue; and

WHEREAS, the Legislative Hearing Officer reviewed this case on April 11, 2023 to determine if the owner and/or responsible party abated the nuisance conditions and found these conditions were not abated with building inspections reporting the rehabilitation is 55% complete after reviewing permit status and inspecting the building; and

WHEREAS, the Legislative hearing Officer also found that the work was 45% six months earlier when this order was reviewed for City Council; and

WHEREAS, no plans or financing to execute the plans were forthcoming at or subsequent to the April 11, 2023 Legislative Hearing, which the property owner did not attend; and

WHEREAS, the Legislative Hearing Officer found that history of the abatement efforts at this property did not make it likely that the nuisance condition would be abated by this owner, to wit
1) 318 Edmund Avenue has been a Registered Vacant Building since October 2012 and in January 2021 the Department of Safety and Inspections issued an Order to Abate a Nuisance Building within 30 days, for which there was no compliance, resulting in the department’s referral to the City Council for issuance of an order for the rehabilitation or razing and removal of the property; and
2) order for the rehabilitation or razing and removal of the property of 318 Edmund Avenue was originally considered by the City Council April 21, 2021, and the owner was given 4 months to work with the Legislative Hearing Officer, over the course of 6 hearings, to provide acceptable plans and evidence...