What do you think about an ordinance that would add various criminal activities to the City Code's definition of Nuisance?
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Provo City’s Division of Code Enforcement often works with Provo Police when enforcing on properties where both criminal activities and code violations exist. There have been a small number of high-profile cases where the property owner continued to allow various criminal activities to take place. Provo Police were able to take actions against any individuals who were found to be directly involved in such activities, and Code Enforcement was able to address some more minor issues that were found. The problem we discovered was that such persons who were committing criminal activities were continually allowed back into the home by the homeowner, and the neighborhood was greatly concerned such activities were allowed to continue. Development Services and Provo Police have discussed various ways to work better together to enforce such violations. We determined that adding various criminal activities to our definition of Nuisance would assist Provo City with holding property owners responsible for allowing such activities to take place on their property, and as such be able to require that the owner abate the nuisance.
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