[Peace-discuss] Urbana's WQ seeking ethnic cleansing and more power over property owners.

[E. Wayne Johnson]

Consider the article below...

I suggest that Prussing just cut directly to the chase and say that she 
wants to create an queendom in Urbana that is exclusively
for wealthy white folks except that a few others needed for domestic 
servants are welcome provided
that they meet her standards.  All the riff-raff should be summarily 
kicked out onto the streets.  Property "owners"
should take note that all of their property is lent to them by the kind 
permission of the Queen, and serious
consequences shall befall all who respect her not.



    Urbana considering ordinance for repeat nuisance offenders


          By Mike Monson </news/reporter/mmonson/>


            Wednesday November 12, 2008

URBANA -- The city administration wants broad power to crack down on 
problem properties where criminal activities occur twice or more within 
a six-month period.

City aldermen on Monday discussed a proposed "criminal nuisance 
property" ordinance, but, at the suggestion of City Attorney Ronald 
O'Neal, postponed a final vote until next month.

"I recommend you give this one a really close look," he said. "There 
will be some concern from property owners regarding its use."

Mayor Laurel Prussing said she asked O'Neal to draft the ordinance.

"We try to make sure we can combat problems in every way possible to 
reduce crime and make neighborhoods safer," she said.

The proposed ordinance defines 15 criminal activities as nuisance 
activities, among them mob action, assault, battery, unlawful use of 
weapons, prostitution, sexual assault, public indecency, illegal 
gambling, arson and drug-related crimes.

If "a preponderance of the evidence" indicates that there have been two 
or more instances of nuisance activity within six months, the city could 
under the ordinance seek a fine of between $300 and $750 per day, per 
incident against the property owner, occupant or person in charge.

In hearing such a case, a judge could consider how serious the problem 
has been, the cost to the city in investigating and attempting to 
resolve it and how cooperative the property owner or other person has 
been, according to wording in the proposed ordinance.

O'Neal described the ordinance as "a very rough draft." He said it would 
give police another option when certain properties are generating an 
inordinate number of police calls.

"This ordinance attempts to put some of the onus on property owners," he 
said.

The city attorney said he helped draft a similar ordinance for the city 
of Aurora, where he formerly worked. O'Neal told aldermen that Aurora 
used its ordinance selectively against three or four chronic violators.

"We made property owners aware of this ordinance and let them know there 
were some fairly stiff fines available," he said.

The proposed ordinance would also give Urbana the authority to suspend 
the city rental license for a property for a period of 30 to 180 days.

Asked by Alderman Charlie Smyth what properties in Urbana might be 
subject to such a penalty, O'Neal declined to name names, but said "they 
involve apartment complexes and one or two bars as well."

Alderwoman Heather Stevenson asked about a scenario where a landlord was 
compelled to rent to a felon because of the city's human rights 
ordinance, which prohibits discrimination against someone based on their 
criminal record, and a situation where the felon then begins committing 
crimes.

"You are not required to keep someone who is perpetrating ongoing 
criminal activity," O'Neal responded. "You have grounds to evict them."

Champaign passed an aggravated-public-nuisances ordinance about a decade 
ago that targets property owners who allow their tenants to commit 
criminal acts, said Champaign City Attorney Fred Stavins.

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