Third District Council Member Jake Gibbs has asked the city to review the 18-year-old party plan.
The current plan to reduce rowdy celebrations relies heavily on criminal convictions. Police Special Operations Commander Thomas Curtsinger said the new approach includes civil penalties.
“It doesn’t require convictions to trigger actions against the landlord," he said. That, he said, will allow officers to deal directly with the situation at hand.
A single house cited for disruption on two different occations, could receive a 12-month designation as a "disruptive premise."
Civil fines against the landlord could occur if problems persist. Council Member Chuck Ellinger said evicting problem tenants is not an easy process. “It’s not an easy process just to tell them to go on the street. And then what happens is I think landlords might start raising the rent to the point that they have to put this as an additional cost into their rent,” noted Ellinger.
Gibbs, who represents the area around the University of Kentucky said, “parties are not necessarily bad, but there are some bad parties.” He read messages from constituents complaining about house vibrating from loud noises and drunken disturbances. Gibbs doesn’t anticipate a council vote until late January or early February.?
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