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Mounds View City Council July 22, 2013 Regular Meeting Page 4 I the container. City Attorney Riggs stated this would essentially be an interim use time period for 2 the homeowner. 3 4 Council Member Mueller commented in other code enforcement scenarios only 30-60 days was 5 offered by the City to bring the property into compliance. Planning Associate Heller stated this 6 was the case. 7 8 Victoria Simpkins, 6928 Pleasant View Drive, commented she has owned her cargo container for 9 15 years and purchased it from her brother Steve Otis. 10 11 Mayor Flaherty questioned how one would go about getting rid of a cargo container. Steve Otis 12 stated this would be difficult as it was quite heavy and trees had grown around it. However, there 13 were still communities in the metro area that allowed the use of cargo containers for storage. 14 15 Mayor Flaherty asked if six months would give Ms. Simpkins enough time to get rid of the 16 container. Mr. Otis recommended this be extended to nine months or a year as this would give 17 them through the winter to get rid of the cargo container. 18 19 Ms. Simpkins did not understand why the cargo container could not be grandfathered in, as there 20 was no reference in City Code referring to cargo containers as an un -allowed use in the City of 21 Mounds View. She understood that if the Ordinance were rewritten the City could move forward 22 from this point for all other homeowners and requested that she be allowed to keep her cargo 23 container. 24 25 Mayor Flaherty inquired if Ms. Simpkins could meet the City half -way with this situation. Ms. 26 Simpkins commented she had no place to store the items in the cargo container on her property. 27 Again, she did not understand why the container could not be grandfathered in. She requested 28 the cargo container be tied into the sale of her house. City Attorney Riggs explained this would 29 require an additional code amendment as it was not a permitted use at this time. 30 31 Mayor Flaherty recommended the time period be extended to 12 months and suggested Ms. 32 Simpkins apply for an interim use permit. City Administrator Ericson stated the current code has 33 no language that would allow for the cargo container to be an interim use and therefore a permit 34 could not be applied for. Such a change would allow for every property owner in the City to 35 request an interim permit for a cargo container. 36 37 MOTION/SECOND: Flaherty/Gunn. To revise the language in Ordinance 879, Amending the 38 Zoning Code to allow for a 12 month removal time period. 39 40 Council Member Mueller expressed concern with drawing out the time period as this would 41 allow other code offenders to request the same extension. 42 43 Ayes — 4 Nays — 1 (Mueller) Motion carried. 44 45 MOTION/SECOND: Flaherty/Meehlhause. To Waive the Second Reading and Adopt Revised