Nuisance Properties
Nuisance Properties
DSP Board Calls on the City of Spokane to Enforce Chronic Nuisance Laws & Close Violators
After significant challenges have emerged in the last several years in south downtown, the DSP has determined that it is imperative for the City to act now for the good of the community by enforcing the standards contained in Spokane Municipal Code’s provisions on Chronic Nuisance Properties, SMC 10.68. The over-concentration of services in south downtown that are meant to aid people in crisis, combined with an unfortunate inability by certain service providers to properly manage their facilities, has led to the degradation of the most prominent entry into our city from I-90, and the properties and businesses that surround it. It has also worsened the situation for people who need to be free from the inducement to go back to life on the street they are trying to escape. Due to these untenable conditions the DSP asks the City act urgently to enforce Chronic Nuisance Property provisions and for the closure or relocation of service providers who are harming downtown, including but not limited to Compassionate Addiction Treatment located at 168 S Division. The standards established in the City’s Chronic Nuisance Property code are clear, and violation is easily avoidable.
The DSP calls on our City partners, service providers and members of the community act quickly and decisively to resolve this situation by ensuring these basic standards are adhered to. Doing so will lead to improved conditions for this sensitive portion of downtown, and to improvement in the lives of vulnerable people.