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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 PARKING The City Planner reviewed his report dated September 9, 2013 relative to AND parking and storage regulations on residential properties. He noted that a STORAGE series of meetings were held earlier in the year to consider changes to FOR these regulations. Based on these discussions, changes were made in RESIDENTIAL the table that the Council has in their agenda packet, and the Planner PROPERTIES indicated that he will have the accompanying graphic updated as well. The Planner noted that at the last Council and Planning Commission workshop, the direction was to update this information based on the discussion and bring it back to another workshop session. The Planner indicated that the Planning Commission has requested that the Council call for a joint workshop with them on Thursday, October 10th, to review this matter. Blesener introduced the following resolution and moved its adoption: RESOLUTION NO. 2013 -9 -171— CALLING A JOINT WORKSHOP WITH THE PLANNING COMMISSION FOR THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2013 AT 6:00 P.M. TO DISCUSS PARKING AND STORAGE FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES AS WELL AS AUTO - RELATED USES IN THE B -2, B -4, AND I -1 ZONING DISTRICTS The foregoing resolution was duly seconded by Montour. Ayes (4). Nays (0). Resolution declared adopted. McMENEMY The City Administrator reported that he has received the appraisal opinion ROAD letter for the MeMenemy Road properties in Little Canada that are a part IMPROVEMENT of the City of Maplewood's improvement in the Arkwright- Sunrise area. The Administrator indicated, however, that he has not had a chance to review this information. The Administrator reported that Little Canada's share of the cost of this project is $243,000 with $62,000 of that amount to be assessed against the benefitting Little Canada properties. The Administrator indicated that the next step in the process is to call for an improvement hearing to discuss the project with the Little Canada property owners. The Administrator reported that the Maplewood City Manager is interested in discussing the issue of annexation of these Little Canada properties to the City of Maplewood. I -Ie reported that a meeting has been scheduled for Wednesday, October 9th, to discuss this on a staff level with the City Attorney, City Engineer, Public Works Superintendent and himself meeting with Maplewood staff. The Administrator noted that the Council discussed this option given that these Little Canada properties receive all services from the City of Maplewood, and because the level of 7