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rz REQUEST FOR COUNCIL CONSIDERATION Agenda Section i STAFF REPORT Report Number: NMI I - ©URA Report Date: 8/6/96 • ; CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE Special Order of Bus. August 12, 1996 ^" , Consent Agenda D� r"rt`Partne[��QS _ Public Hearings X Council Business Item Description: Discussion of Nuisance Abatement of 7685 Knollwood Drive, Mounds View. Administrator's Review/Recommendation: -No Comments to supplement this report -Comments attached. Explanation/Summary(attach supplement sheets as necessary) Summary: The property at 7685 Knollwood Drive is in violation with the Nuisance Section of the Municipal Code and requires immediate attention. Specifically, in the rear yard, inspections have revealed the following Nuisance Code violations: large wood accumulations (the wood accumulations are required to be neatly stacked on the property), automobile parts and doors on the property, garbage bag accumulations, and several junked vehicles. The junked vehicles observed on the property include: a grey colored Chevy truck, license plate Magoo-1, expired in April 1994; a red colored Chevy, license plate 220 JXH, expired in November 1994; a Iwhite and orange colored van, license plate 129 EKW, expired in October 1994, with a flat tire; a brown colored truck, license plate 869 EZE, expired in April 1994, with a flat tire and the truck is filled with old automobile parts; and a car covered with a tarp is parked on the rear yard. In addition, a maroon colored Ford, license plate 763 EVN, expired in August 1994; and a brown colored truck, license plate expired in August 1994, are parked on the front yard driveway. The vehicles in the rear yard are parked on dirt or weeds. The Municipal Code does not define dirt as an improved surface, and therefore, is in violation as a parking surface by the Mounds View Code. Photo documentation of these violations has been taken. The above items are in violations of the Municipal Code. Specifically, Section 607.06, Subd. 6, of the Mounds View Nuisance Code, declare junked vehicles a"public nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of the public because they invite plundering, create fire hazards, attract vermin, and present physical dangers to the safety and well being of children and other citizens." A junked vehicle is defined within the Nuisance Code as "an inoperable motor vehicle which is partially dismantled, which is used for sale of parts or as a source of repair or replacement parts for other vehicles, or which is kept for scrapping, dismantling or salvage of any kind, unless such vehicle is kept in an enclosed garage." Thus, any vehicle stored outside without current license plates and vehicle tabs is considered a junked vehicle. Section 607.03, Subd. 3c, of the Joyce Pruitt, Planning Associate ORECOMMENDATION: Approve/Deny Resolution No. 4985, Recommending Abating 7685 Knollwood Drive.