BRIEFLY : SIMI COUNCIL PASSES FINE ON MESSY YARDS.SIMI VALLEY - The Simi Valley City Council gave its new property maintenance law some teeth Monday night, as it approved a fine to be levied against property owners who refuse to clean up their acts. As a result of the new law, approved in July, 142 homes and businesses have been targeted for inspection to determine whether there is a municipal code violation present. While some of those property owners have complied and fixed the problems, several have not. So, the council voted 4-1 to approve the new fine schedule, to give a financial incentive to those property owners to comply. City officials said they will work with property owners to get them to voluntarily comply with the ordinance, but the fines will be imposed if they do not. The first fine imposed would be $100, a second would be $200, and a third fine and each subsequent one would be $500. - Daily News Limits on RV parking get preliminary OK SIMI VALLEY - The Simi Valley City Council gave informal approval to an ordinance giving the city manager permission to restrict RV and mobile-home parking on designated streets throughout the city. Several residents said they were concerned that the regulations would affect them, while others supported the idea of doing away with an often-dangerous problem. While several on the council indicated they would be open to giving final approval when it comes up again, they did not take a vote Monday. The issue is likely to go back to the council next week. The city currently bans vehicles taller than six feet on eight streets, including Agate agate (ăg`ĭt), translucent, cryptocrystalline variety of quartz and a subvariety of chalcedony. Agates are identical in chemical structure to jasper, flint, chert, petrified wood, and tiger's-eye, and are often found in association with opal. Court, Los Angeles Avenue and Eileen, Winifred and Easy streets. The ordinance is expected to be used sparingly, as a way to respond to complaints by residents of potential hazards created by the vehicles. - Daily News Diver autopsy shows drowning killed her VENTURA - The autopsy of a scuba diver who died Saturday revealed that she died of asphyxia fetal asphyxia asphyxia in utero due to hypoxia. asphyxia neonato´rum respiratory failure in the newborn; see also respiratory distress syndrome of newborn, under syndrome. traumatic asphyxia that due to sudden or severe compression of the thorax or upper abdomen, or both. by drowning, according to the Ventura County Coroner's Office. Julie Asaoka, 47, of Ventura sank in 28 feet of water while diving with a college group off Anacapa Island. Her diving partner, 17-year-old Brian Owen of Ventura, suffered decompression sickness decompression sickness, physiological disorder caused by a rapid decrease in atmospheric pressure, resulting in the release of nitrogen bubbles into the body tissues. It is also known as caisson disease, altitude sickness, and the bends. It is an occupational hazard of persons who work under greatly increased atmospheric pressure below the surface of the earth (e.g. after he dived and brought Asaoka to the surface rapidly. Despite CPR and attempts at revival, Asaoka was dead on arrival at Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks. After suffering an air embolism air embolism: see embolus., Owen was treated in the hyperbaric oxygen chamber at Los Robles and released Sunday. During the next few weeks, the Coroner's Office will conduct further toxicology and equipment tests to determine whether any other factors contributed to Asaoka's death. - Daily News |
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