LEGAL NOTICE

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The Cochise County Planning and Zoning Commission hereby gives notice that a Public Hearing will be held at or after 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday, December 9, 2009 at 1415 Melody Lane, Building G, Bisbee, Arizona, to consider the following:

Docket R-09-02: Consideration of adoption of a new ordinance entitled the "Cochise County Hazard Abatement Ordinance" to abate/remove rubbish, trash, weeds, filth, debris or damaged or dilapidated buildings which constitute a hazard to public health and safety and which may be compelled to be removed, with due process, from buildings, grounds, lots, contiguous sidewalks, streets and alleys within the unincorporated areas of the County. The Ordinance outlines the due process for formal notification, removal by the County and recovery of costs for removal and appeal processes for property owners with hazardous materials.

Details of the above docket are on file in the office of the Cochise County Planning Department, 1415 Melody Lane, Bisbee, Arizona, Building E, and may be examined during office hours (Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.). With comments or questions, please contact Zoning Administrator Rick Corley at 520.432-9240 or rhcorley@cochise.az.gov. All persons interested in said matter may appear at said public hearing at said time and place and show cause, if any they have, why said amendments should or should not be approved.

If the Commission makes a recommendation, the docket will be heard in a public hearing before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at or after 10:00 a.m. at 1415 Melody Lane, Building G, in Bisbee, Arizona.

Dated this 3rd Day of November, 2009

Lee Basnar, Chair, Cochise County Planning and Zoning Commission

Publish: Sierra Vista Herald

Publish: No later than November 19, 2009