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Costa Mesa to place tax liens on properties where illegal dispensaries have unpaid fines
An illegal dispensary on Costa Mesa’s College Avenue was raided April 20. City officials on Tuesday certified a process for adding unpaid code and building violation fines, given to illegal cannabis dispensaries, to a landowner’s property tax.
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After issuing code violation notices and citations to illegal cannabis dispensaries and property owners a practice that, in recent years, has racked up $122,475 in unpaid fines the city of Costa Mesa is upping its nuisance abatement game.
City Council members this week passed a resolution to place delinquent citations on the county’s property tax roll as a lien against offending properties, meaning owners would have unpaid fines added to their property tax bills as a special assessment.