The purpose of this chapter is to define what constitutes a public nuisance and how a public nuisance will be abated. The intended result of abating a public nuisance is to protect public health and property values by reducing visual blight, reducing the opportunity for harboring of rodents and pests, providing for safer pedestrian and automobile traffic flow, and reducing impacts to the environment by preventing the indiscriminate storage of inoperable vehicles. Public nuisances will be abated in all areas of the city with emphasis in the residential neighborhoods. (Ord. 5747 § 1, 2003; Ord. 2967 § 1, 1976; 1957 code § 7.04.270.)