The Cape Coral City Council gave the City Attorney’s Office the ability to initiate and pursue all legal remedies to ensure compliance and enforcement is being met.
The authorization allows the city’s legal office the authority “to initiate and pursue those available legal remedies to ensure compliance and enforcement of the various ordinance provisions” and authorize “any and all legal action to require any individuals, entities, businesses, or corporations to immediately abate the continued unlawful violations that may directly or indirectly implicate the public health, safety and general welfare of the city residents and visitors.”
City Attorney Aleksandr Boksner said when they have people who do not comply with a special magistrate order, a quasi-judicial order, the city can pursue an actual judicial order.
“It’s another tool in our tool belt. When code violations are not properly collected, we can proceed forward,” he said of individuals or entities of businesses that refuse or fail to comply with codes.
Boksner gave an example of a short-term rental violator that had a violation of $30,000 or more on multiple properties.
“We would then proceed with enforcement with the judicial system because there is no real result with the special magistrate process,” he said. “Before we do anything like that you all would be notified for support.”
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