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Page 5 July 27, 1998 Mounds View City Council 11. R-1 and R-2 districts can have 300 square feet of gravel parking area for RV storage. 12. Proof of parking will be allowed as a conditional use with the meeting of the City's criteria for that proof of parking. 13. A distinction between temporary and permanent surfaces would be eliminated with regard to setback of a driveway to the side property line. Mayor McCarty questioned Section 2: Section 902.05, Subd 1, Item b. Drainage Provisions: The driveway or parking area shall be constructed so as to provide drainage from the garage to the street unless a variance is granted by the Building Inspector. Mayor McCarty stated, "it was his own personal experience that if surface water drains through a persons back yard, and is filtered through a natural assimilation why the City would encourage that rather than require that water be drained through the street and eventually through the storm sewer system." Attorney Long stated issues such as this fall under the City's Building Code and not the City's Zoning Code, so the Building Inspector and not the Planning Commission would have the charge of determining what should be done in issues such as this. McCarty suggested that the Council pass Ordinance No. 620 in its present form but he asked staff to "reassess and polish" Ordinance No. 620 with future amendments that would make the Ordinance apply equally to everybody. Mayor McCarty told Ericson the reference to Section 1104, Subd. 4(1a) is not in the City's code book. He asked Ericson to research the issue and bring it to resolution. Mayor McCarty asked staff to reconsider the maximum size of allowable accessory buildings; currently stated as 216 square feet. This figure amounts to 2 percent of the allowable minimum lot size of 11,000 square feet. He stated that the larger lots in Mounds View need a proportional formula that would allow a percentage of the lot as an acceptable accessory building size in stead of the 216 square foot accessory building as the maximum size. Quick expressed his concern that the formula wouldn't work if an individual decided to have a lot split. Dan Coughlin, 8468 Spring Lake Road, spoke in opposition of not issuing permits until another portion of the property is upgraded. Example: If a person lives on a lake and wants to build a new fence, he would have to update his septic system before the fence could be built. He suggested allowing the home owner a one-year period of time to complete the required upgrades. This would make it financially more reasonable to achieve more expensive types of upgrades.