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Councilman Martinez
5/8/2026
Dept of Public Service
O-182-26
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From: Councilman Martinez Response Requested: ASAP
With regard to assessing nuisance properties or setouts- how do we notify the owners? What mail service will be used, and will it be sent to the property address or the owner's address on record with the auditor's office?
Additionally, will we clear or wipe out fees if a new owner buys the property?
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Referral Response:
The owners will be notified of the illegal set-out fine by regular mail to the owner of property, so the Owner's address.
Currently for grass mowing nuisances, a door tag is left at occupied properties to notify them of the nuisance and requirement to cut grass. After 72 hours, our QCs re-investigate and take photos and escalate to Code Compliance for a fine to be issued. The grass fines double after the property not being in compliance. So they start at $75, $150, $300, $600 and then $600 every time.
In a similar way, Republic is helping property owners and residents self correct behavior by stickering non compliant bulk.
Set-out fines: when we see the egregious set-outs, we will fine immediately.
We will receive notifications via Republic reporting, through Engage, and from Toledo Municipal Court's legal- eviction list, sent daily. The best information is via Republic, because it has photos. Not every scheduled eviction = a set-out or clean-up.
Compliance to abate nuisances and follow rules within the TMC and the penalties (nuisance abatement charge) is published in a few papers each Spring and posted annually on City Website.
Our team met with law earlier in the year concerning waiving fees when properties change hands. We established that the fine does not have to be waived, and can carry over to new owner. We have legal authority to keep the charges on the tax assessment despite the property owner changes. Property owner's have a due diligence to check on any liens through Title Search in the buy...
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