Clary v. City of Crescent City

Overgrown weeds and rubbish on vacant lots constituted a public nuisance that required abatement despite owner’s assertion that the conditions on his properties, including high growing blackberry bushes, broom plants, other weedy vegetation, abundant trash and illegally dumped material, were not a nuisance, but “natural landscaping” that provided habitat for birds and other wildlife. The court of appeal affirmed the trial court in upholding Crescent City’s findings of nuisance and levy of abatement costs. About 12 dump truck loads and over 1000 pounds of trash were removed from the properties, some of it from homeless encampments. View "Clary v. City of Crescent City" on Justia Law