Pushy City Demands
My father and I currently own a commercial property in the city of Salinas California. The building is not in use, although the local homeless tend to camp there when nobody is looking. (This is not unusual for the area) One day the city code enforcer became involved by demanding that the building be demolished. The complaints made to the city are from a nasty property owner next door. He has destroyed our fence which is not provable cut our sign down in order to make his sign visible which also is not provable and dumps his tires in the back parking lot which is not provable although we have seen him do it several times. As far as the complaint for the campers I have repaired the situation with better fencing. No trash can come into the area. I did not want to demolish because we were in the process of remodeling. The city gives us an extention. Now the same complainst from the same person are being reported. The city believes the complaints and pushes us to demolish. In my eyes a demolish would ruin the project due to new codes and setbacks. I have hired an engineer and a designer for the project. The due date for the order to demolish is now past appx 70 days. The code enforcer is now pushing the desiner to make action even after plans have been submitted. In order for this project to run smoother I would like to somehow get the city out of the picture so that my designer engineer and myself are not carrying more load with time deadlines. Oh yes, I forgot to mention that the code enforcer had mentioned the property to be sold by one of her friends or sell it to the neighbor who has been complaining. Can you give me any advise on how to get rid of the citys say?
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