A.

It is the duty of each owner of property within the City to erect, maintain, repair and replace all screening facilities which were required to be placed on the property pursuant to the conditions or requirements of any building permit, certificate of occupancy, site plan, subdivision approval, special use permit, variance, zone change or other requirement of any board, Governing Body, agency, commission or official of the City pursuant to this title. The voluntary inclusion of screening facilities in any application, plans, specifications, statements or representations by an applicant shall be deemed to be a condition or requirement of the official approval of the application.

B.

Screening facilities shall mean walls, fences, trees, plantings, shrubbery or other screening.

Whenever the enforcement officer of the City determines that screening facilities are not being properly erected, maintained, repaired or replaced, as required by Section 17.74.010, he shall include such determination in a notice of violation to be sent by the enforcement officer by registered mail addressed to the owner of record of such land at the address shown on the last preceding assessment roll of the City which notice shall direct the owner to remove the violation within thirty (30) days of mailing of the notice. The notice of violation shall specify:

A.

The manner in which the screening facilities do not comply with requirements.

B.

The correction that is required to be made.

C.

A statement that in the event that the owner fails to comply within such thirty (30) days, the Governing Body may direct the enforcement officer to contract for the erection, replacement, repair or maintenance of such screening facilities and provide for the assessment of all costs and expenses so incurred by the City in connection with any action taken by the City, to be placed as a lien against the property and included in the following year's City tax levied on the property.

Whenever the notice of violation has not been complied with, within the thirty-day period after mailing of such notice, the Governing Body shall by ordinance direct the enforcement officer to contract for the erection, repair, replacement or maintenance of such screening facilities in the manner specified in the notice of violation and to assess the costs and expenses of same as a lien against the property as provided in Section 17.74.040.

The costs and expenses incurred pursuant to Section 17.74.030 shall be paid by the owner of the assessment roll of the county. The enforcement officer shall file among his records an affidavit stating with fairness and accuracy the items of cost and expense incurred and the date of execution of actions authorized by the Governing Body. The City shall incorporate all such costs and expenses as a lien against the property by including the same in the following year's City tax levied on the property unless such costs and expenses have been paid in full prior to preparation and mailing of the tax notice.