City of Coral Gables

File #: 18-7840    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Ordinance Status: Adopted
File created: 8/30/2018 In control: City Commission
On agenda: 9/25/2018 Final action: 9/25/2018
Enactment date: 9/25/2018 Enactment #: 2018-39
Title: An Ordinance of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, amending section 105-96, Chapter 105, Article III of the City of Coral Gables Code to add demolition to the enumerated emergency actions that may be ordered or taken by the Building Official in connection with an unsafe structure; providing for a repealer provision, severability clause, codification, and providing for an effective date.
Attachments: 1. Signed Ordinance 2018-39, 2. 2018-9-25 CC Cover Memo-2nd reading-Ordinance amending emergency actions for unsafe structures, 3. Draft Ordinance-amending 105-96 emergency actions, 4. 2018-9-11 CC Cover Memo-Ordinance amending emergency actions for unsafe structures, 5. Draft Ordinance-amending 105-96 emergency actions, 6. Verbatim Transcript - CCMtg September 11 2018 - Agenda Item F-5 - Ordinance amending Section 105-96 to add demolition

Title

An Ordinance of the City Commission of Coral Gables, Florida, amending section 105-96, Chapter 105, Article III of the City of Coral Gables Code to add demolition to the enumerated emergency actions that may be ordered or taken by the Building Official in connection with an unsafe structure; providing for a repealer provision, severability clause, codification, and providing for an effective date. 

 

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Section 105-96 of the City Code describes the actions that may be ordered or taken by the building official when there is an actual or immediate danger or the failure of collapse of a structure, but does not expressly include demolition.

 

However, under certain emergency circumstances, demolition or partial demolition of a structure is necessary to protect the public health, welfare and safety.

 

The proposed ordinance expressly authorizes the building official to order the demolition of or take action to demolish or partially demolish a structure as necessary under emergency circumstances.