The Clearwater Municipal Code Enforcement Board met on March 25, 2026, at the Main Library - Council Chambers, 100 N. Osceola Avenue. The meeting began at 1:30 PM and lasted approximately two hours and 22 minutes, with a brief break. The board considered a lengthy agenda that included new business items (cases of code violations), affidavits of compliance and non-compliance, a fine reduction request, election of officers, and nuisance abatement lien filings.
Today's meeting of the municipal code enforcement board is called to order on March twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. Please rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of America. Please be seated. Agendas of today's meeting are on the wall at the entrance to chambers. Please remember to turn off your cell phone. It is this board's intention to promote, protect, and improve the health safety and welfare of the citizens of Clearwater by providing this equitable, effective, and inexpensive method of enforcing certain codes within the city. The board considers new business items in two parts. First, the violation and then affirmative relief. Formal rules of evidence do not apply. Each side is limited to fifteen minutes. The board may grant additional time. Individuals who conduct themselves otherwise will be asked to leave. If necessary, they will be escorted from chambers. Motion passes. We're going to take up a lien case reduction based on the request from our secretary. This is under on page six. Under item five, other board action, and this will be case 97-24. Consider request by petitioners, RE Capital Management LLC at 2080 Douglas Avenue to reduce the fine regarding exterior services, and if approved, issue an order that specifies a fine that includes administration costs and establishes the date payable, or the lien will revert to its original amount. Thank you. Would you state your name and your uh address and involvement for the record, please? Yes, my name is John Lou. That's called L I U. I'm a state certified building contractor, uh, filling in for the property owner. Um, and Nicole does have an authorization letter that's autorized signed by the property owner. Uh, my address is 5447 Road North, number 235, uh, St. Peter's Road 4 at 33714. Thank you. Um, basically the property when it had uh open coach cases, it approved a lien, and I don't know the exact dollar matters. I don't have a memory, but it's around 17 something thousand dollars. Um the property has been uh brought into compliance. It looks a lot better today uh than it did previously. Um, and just uh Greg here is going to attest to that fact. I actually the first time I stopped by the property was this morning. I was expecting to see worse than I saw it, it looked pretty darn good. It will look even better because I'm going to be brought in to do the work from this from this point forward. So the property owner is uh respectfully requesting that as you know the uh lien be reduced and mitigated to actual hard costs, and we'll get that paid uh ASAP, and that's all I have to say really, unless you have any questions. Uh we may later. Okay, I'll take the second. Inspector Dixon? Afternoon, board inspector Dixon say clear water co-compliance. Um what he said is true. There was rotten wood around the roof flying, and then uh a tree fell on the house after the storms in 24, and uh him and an associate stepped in and they replaced the roof, got all the wood replaced. The grounds were in pretty bad shape. There's a shed that was deteriorating, a fence is deteriorating that's all been removed, all the dead vegetation's been gone, so the city's happy voted done. Okay, yeah, one thing we did not mention. I apologize is the current property owner is not the owner. Please step to the mic, sir. We uh usually loud and overbearing stuff that we do. Um the the property owner um is not the same owner as who incurred the liens originally.