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City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> Ordinance 594: Tall Grasses <br /> March 20, 1997 <br /> Page 2 <br /> The Planning Commission is recommending that Item#3 be changed to read as follows: <br /> Areas on any occupied lot or parcel of land having wetland-type vegetation because of <br /> neighborhood drainage patterns, where the drainage pattern is evident on contour maps <br /> and from field observation, and the vegetation is confined to a'single lot, separated from <br /> adjacent lots, and managed so as not to be a nuisance. <br /> This change would limit the type of vegetation to wetland-type grasses only rather than also <br /> allowing natural plantings and meadow vegetation, which is much more susceptible to spreading <br /> into adjacent yards. Planning Commission felt that in some cases it is difficult to fight the natural <br /> conditions where there is boggy soil and require mowing. Staff is checking with Rick Wriskey as <br /> to whether wetland grasses are unlikely to spread into adjacent yards because they require wet <br /> conditions to flourish. <br /> Recommendation: <br /> Option#1: The Planning Commission, by a unanimous vote, and Staff recommend City Council <br /> adoption of Ordinance 594 with the change noted above, which would allow exemptions from the <br /> noxious weed and tall grass provisions of the Municipal Code. <br /> Option#2: Ordinance 594 be adopted with exemption#3 removed. <br /> 11111 <br /> Two ordinances have been prepared for City Council following Option#1 and Option#2. <br /> %° <br /> rJ WikklOS <br /> James Ericson, Planning Associate <br /> cc: Keith King, 8380 Greenwood Drive <br />