What is Property Maintenance?

Property maintenance is the orderly keeping of real property within the City of Pleasanton. An increasing number of unkempt properties within the City of Pleasanton, and complaints about those properties, gave cause for the Pleasanton City Council to adopt Chapter 9.28 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code in September 1989. This ordinance became effective in October 1989. The ordinance sets certain standards for the maintenance of all real property within the City of Pleasanton and is in keeping with the purpose of the Municipal Code which is to enhance property values and ensure that the rights of all businesses and residents to privacy, safety and an attractive environment are respected. Your cooperation in complying with municipal code will help to enhance the quality of life in Pleasanton.

Who is Responsible for the Maintenance of Property?

The owner, lessee, tenant, or other person having control or possession of the property. A "person" means any individual, partnership, corporation, association or other organization, however formed.
 
Section 9.28.020 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code
Unlawful Property Nuisances

It shall be unlawful for any person owning, leasing, renting, occupying, or having charge or possession of any property in the City to maintain or to allow to be maintained such property in such manner that any of the following conditions are found to exist thereon:

1. Storage of broken or discarded furniture, household equipment and furnishings or shopping carts when visible from a public street.
   
   
2. Overgrown vegetation visible from a public street which may be a harborage for rats or other vermin, or cause a sight obstruction, or which impedes or obstructs the public rights-of-way.
   
   
3. Dead, decayed, diseased or hazardous trees, weeds, or other vegetation constituting unsightly appearance and visible from a public street.
   
   
4. Packing boxes, cardboard boxes, lumber, junk, trash, barrels, drums, salvage materials, or other debris kept on the property for an unreasonable time and visible from a public street.
   
   
5. Abandoned, broken or neglected equipment, machinery, appliances, refrigerators and freezers, hazardous pools, ponds and excavations.
   
   
6. Vehicles, boats, trailers, or vehicle parts which are abandoned or left in a state of partial repair for an unreasonable time in front yards, side yards, driveways and visible from a public street.
   
   
7. Vehicles parked or stored off the pavement on residential properties and visible from a public street.
   
   
8. Abandoned buildings.
   
   
9. Unsightly buildings in a state of major disrepair.
   
   
10. Buildings with broken windows for an unreasonable period of time.
    
    
11. Building exteriors, walls, fences, driveways, sidewalks, or walkways which are maintained in defective or unsightly condition.
    
    
12. Construction equipment, farm machinery, or machinery of any type stored on property visible from a public street in residential zone.
    
    
13. Property lacking appropriate landscaping, turf or plant material so as to cause excessive dust.
    
    
14. Storing piles of dirt, rocks, gravel, sand, concrete, and other similar materials for unreasonable time.
    
    
15. Maintenance of property out of harmony or conformity with the standards of the neighborhood.