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Home My WebLink AboutResponse by MPD~~E IDIAN ~,S ,::~ ~. POLICE DEPARTMENT __ : , _~~`.-~~ . ~":~~~.. . '/ +_1~.. Air. t/ ~ ~ ~.., ~` '` ,.'° ~-- = j ~"' f-- Jeff A.Lavey Chief of Polite September l7, 2008 Ryan McDaniel 1785 N. Teare Ave. Meridian, TD 83646 Rcmedial.m ind@gmai l.com Mr. McDaniel, Phone: (208) 888-6678 Fax: (zo8) aa6-7366 1 am writing you this letter in response to your inquiry in May 200$ and September 2008 regarding code violations within the Devon Park subdivision. In both May and September, code violations in the subdivision were located and have been addressed. in May, Code Enforcement Officer Tom Baker was assigned to evaluate code violations within the Devon park suhdivision after you and I spoke on the telephone. Violations found were weeds longer than eight inches, junk/eanstruction debris, and graffiti. Once the property owners/managers were notified of the violations, the properties came into compliance with Cade within the allotted timeframe. After your inquiry in September, Officer Baker returned to the property to evaluate for code violations. Weed violations were found on several properties. Officer Baker has sent letters via registered mail to the property owners informing them of the weed violations and seeking that the property be in compliance to the city code. Meridian Code Enforcement does not document every violation they encounter. If compliance is obtained the incident might not rise to the level of being formally documented as a code violation. As a result, large portions of code violations addressed by Code Enforcement Oi~icers are not documented. In your inquiry, you asked if the code violations found at Devon Park subdivision are typical, and 1. will not comment to that question because not all violations are documented and no formula. exists to determine which an.d/or how many code violations in a subdivision would be considered typical. Additionally, I am unable to provide accurate data on how many times Meridian Code Enforcement has addressed code violations within the Devon Park subdivision, since that information is not captured in a database. Sincerely, gt. John Gonzales Community Services Division 1401 fast Watertower • Meridian, Idaho 83642 Page 1 of 4 Machelle Hill From: Sonya Watters Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 8:31 AM To: Machelle Hill; Tara Green; Nancy Radford; Jaycee Holman Cc: Ryan McDaniel Subject: FW: Devon Park -Public Records Request, revision to original request. Attachments: Ryan McDaniel.pdf Tara, Mr. McDaniel requested the attached letter be included in the P&Z packet for Fairview Lakes Retail MCU. Thanks, Sonya Sgt. Gonzales, Thank you for responding to the request and for resolving the Code Enforcement Violations on both occasions. Sonya, could we please add this to the P&Z Commissioner's packet for CU 08-002? Thank you very much, Ryan. From: John Gonzales Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2008 11:50 AM To: Ryan McDaniel Cc: Sonya Watters Subject: RE: pevon Park -Public Records Request, revision to original request. Mr. McDaniel, I will mail your letter today; however, I have attached a copy of the letter to this email. Sgt. John Gonzales From: Ryan McDaniel [mailto:remedial.mind@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, September 15, 2008 9:32 AM To: John Gonzales Subject: Re: Devon Park -Public Records Request, revision to original request. Good Morning Officer Gonzales, Just as a friendly reminder, I have a Planning & Zur~ing Meeting to attend this Thursday, September 1$th. I would like to review your findings at this meeting. Is it possible to send me your findings prior to 12:prn on Thursday? Thank you again. 9/23/2008 Page 2 of 4 Best, Ryan On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 2:16 PM, Ryan McDaniel ~remedial.mind(a~~nail.corn~ wrote: Thank you sir, have a happy weekend. Best, Ryan. On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:31 PM, Jahn Gonzales ~gonzalej~a7meridiancitx.ozg~ wrote: I did receive your email. I have an officer re-checking the area and addressing any current code violations. I will be checking with him next week in order to begin drafting the letter you are seeking. John G. From: Ryan McDaniel [mailto:remedial,.mind@g_mail.com] Sent: Frlday, September 05, 2008 10:29 AM To: John Gonzales Subject: Fwd: Devon Park -Public Records Request, revision to original request. Dear Officer Gonzales, did you receive the below message? Ryan. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Ryan McDaniel ~remedial.mind(c¢e7~nail.com~ Date: Sat, Aug 3U, 2UU8 at 2:18 YM Subject: Devon Park -Public Records Request, revision to original request. To: gonzalej~a,meridiancity.org Cc: Sonya Watters ~watterss e,meridiancity.org~ Dear Officer Gonzales, Thank you for taking the time to help me refine my request to a more readily deliverable product. My original Public Records Request was made in early May and this email is an extension o~ the previous conversations we have had. As we discussed, 1 will be satisfied with the following information: 1) Background: 9/23/2008 Page 3 of 4 Please provide a statement regarding any known background or history of previous Code Enforcement Violations on the parcel. I am only aware of the reports of non-code compliance that I have initiated and would like more information on this issue. I alerted the Meridian Police Department and the developer to 4 specific code enforcement violations in early May 2008: Standing Water, Weeds, runk & Graffiti (at least 3 locations behind the Hastings). I did not ask for citations to be issued; rather, T directed the notification to the Developer so it could be handled as neighbors. At that time, the Developer (Mr. Tamura) did admit that a contractor had also installed floodlights illuminating several residences (which is expressly prohibited in the current entitlement) and said that he intended to fix the~nn, but I am uncertain if this has been fixed. Within the last 3 years I did contact the Meridian Police Department on another issue: to remove an abandoned vehicle that it was in a "recently destroyed" condition from Devon Park. At that time, I _did not know if this sort of thing was a trend and disregarded it as a fluke. Please consider all of the above during your site inspection. 2) Progress Report: Please send an officer to inspect the site and make a determination as to weather the developer has successfully followed instructions and acted to bring the property into compliance with Meridian Code. I had asked Mr. Tamura to take care of these things without taking it to the next level, and now I'rn requesting an assessment by the Meridian Police Department, Code Enforcement Division. Again, I am not asking for Citations to be issued -but I leave that coL~rse of action up to the discretion of the Officer, as is always the case. 3) Professional Opinion: In respect to the above stated Background and Progress Report of the progress the developer has made in bringing this parcel back in compliance with Meridian Code. Secondly, would you comment in a professional capacity as to weather this is a typical amount of issues for a developer ornon-typical amount of issues for a developer to have? With respect to impartiality, if you can not provide a comment as to the typicality of these issues, then provide a sentence explaining why that determination unable to be made? Again, thank you for taking the time to meet with me last week on these issues and helping me refine this request to a more relevant discussion. An email response to this message is sufficient. Best, Ryan McDaniel 1785 North Teare Avenue Meridian, ID 83646 9/23/2008 Page 4 of 4 remedial.mindCcr~,~nai1. com 869-1391 9/23/2008