2025-026 - DECLARING HAZARDOUS VEGETATION (BRUSH) A PUBLIC NUISANCE, ORDERING ABATEMENT, AND SETTING JUNE 17, 2025 AS A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER OBJECTIONS TO THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF BRUSH RESOLUTION 2025-026
RESOLUTION OF THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
DECLARING HAZARDOUS VEGETATION (BRUSH) A PUBLIC NUISANCE,ORDERING
ABATEMENT,AND SETTING JUNE 17, 2025 AS A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER
OBJECTIONS TO THE PROPOSED REMOVAL OF BRUSH
WHEREAS, Town Code Section 11.20.010 authorizes the Town to abate hazardous
brush;
WHEREAS,the County Fire Department administers the Town's brush abatement
program;
WHEREAS,the County uses the brush abatement procedures set forth in Sections 39560
and following of the Government Code of the State of California;
WHEREAS, Town of Los Gatos may declare that hazardous vegetation (brush) growing to
such size and such type and in such locations as to constitute a fire hazard to the community is
a public nuisance and compel owners, lessees, or occupants of buildings, grounds, or lots to
remove or abate the hazardous vegetation (brush)to mitigate the fire hazard from such
buildings, grounds, or lots to remove or abate the hazardous vegetation (brush)to mitigate the
fire hazard from such buildings, grounds, property, and adjacent sidewalks and parkways, and
upon the person's failure to do so, remove or abate such hazardous vegetation (brush) at the
owner's expense, making the cost of that abatement a lien upon the property; and
WHEREAS,the Town of Los Gatos has entered into an agreement with the County of
Santa Clara to provide hazardous vegetation (brush) abatement services; and
WHEREAS, the maintenance of hazardous vegetation (brush) in violation of the Uniform
Fire Code adopted by the Town of Los Gatos within the Wildland Urban Interface Fire areas
identified and shown on the map (Exhibit A) constitutes a public nuisance and should be abated
immediately; and
WHEREAS,the Santa Clara County Fire Department has mailed notices to property
owners within the Wildland Urban Interface areas notifying them of the need to abate
hazardous vegetation (brush) violations and explaining the steps necessary to correct such
violations.
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Resolution 2025-026 May 20,2025
NOW,THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Town Council of the Town of Los Gatos, and
the Town Council hereby finds that:
1. Hazardous vegetation (brush) is a wood, perennial plant usually with multiple stems
and trunks under ten feet in height, and is indigenous to the hillside area. Hazardous
vegetation (brush) is also known to have a high oil, high resin, or low moisture content
in its leaves and branches. Examples of this type of plant material include California
Sagebrush, Greasewood or Chamise, Scotch Broom, and Toyon.
2. Unabated growth of hazardous vegetation (brush) upon and adjacent to private
property within the hillside hazardous fire area and adjacent parkways and sidewalks is
a public nuisance and should be abated.
3. The Director of Parks and Public Works shall act as the Superintendent for purposes of
giving notice, supervising performance of the agreement with the County of Santa Clara,
and evaluating the costs of abatement.
4. A public hearing is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. on June 17, 2025, at which time anyone
objecting to abatement of the public nuisance may appear.
5. The County Fire Department shall mail notice of the public hearing in accordance with
Government Code Section 39566.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that unless the hazardous vegetation (brush) violations are
corrected within the time specified in a written agreement with the Superintendent or the
Superintendent's representative,the Town of Los Gatos shall cause such nuisance to be abated,
and the expense thereof assessed upon the lots or lands from which or on which the
abatement actions occur, such expense to constitute a lien upon such lots or lands until paid,
and to be collected upon the next real property tax roll upon which general municipal taxes are
collected.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that on the 17th day of June 2025, at a meeting of the Town
Council beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Council Chambers of the Civic Center, 110 E. Main Street,
Los Gatos, CA, a public hearing will be held during which all property owners within the
Wildland Urban Interface areas in the Town of Los Gatos having any objections to the proposed
abatement of hazardous vegetation (brush) will be heard and given due consideration.
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Resolution 2025-026 May 20,2025
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the Town Council of the Town of Los
Gatos, California, held on the 20th day of May 2025 by the following vote:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
AYES: Rob Rennie, Mary Badame, Maria Ristow, Rob Moore and Mayor Matthew Eludes
NAYS: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
SIGNED:
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MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA
ATTEST:
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TOWN CL K OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS
LOS GATOS, CALIFORNIA
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