05-09-90 Council Workshop Minutes

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MINUTES WORKSHOP MEETING May 9, 1990 However, Fahey agreed that the City has not been aggressive enough on code enforcement. Blesener pointed out that the businesses in Ryan Industrial Park are low-overhead businesses, and there has been a tendency for these businesses to park junk vehicles on the property. Fahey suggested that the Planning Commission might want to discuss the area of code enforcement and make a recommendation on what direction should be given to the Building Inspector. Drabik felt that a good time for the Building Inspector to have looked for violations was early spring before the leaves were on the trees. Drabik referred to recent articles in the North Suburban Press about taking pride in the community. Drabik felt that the City needed to be cleaned up and rather than have neighbors bring these matters up, which causes hard feelings, the Building Inspector should be addressing the problems. Scalze agreed that it made for bad neighborhood relations to have neighbors turning in one another. Bendel felt that code enforcement was more of a problem than the issue of the third pylon at Rice At C Center. Bendel felt that code enforcement is what really counts in a city. DeLonais asked the status of the existing fire station once the new station is constructed. Scalze replied that there has been some discussion about keeping the existing fire station for use by the Recreation Association and Historical Society. Drabik asked about improvement of a shoulder on Keller Parkway around Gervais Lake. Drabik reported that the upgrading of Keller Parkway has been dropped from the County's five-year plan when the County previously indicated that the project would proceed in 1992. Scalze suggested that the City make another request to have this project included in the five-year plan. Fahey felt that the Planning Commission should come up with a priority list of planning issues they feel need to be addressed, for example, the sign ordinance, Page 6