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Item No.06 Meeting Date: July 2, 2007 Type of Business: WK - Information WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City Administrator Review _______ City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor and City Council From: Heidi Heller, Planning Associate Date: June 27, 2007 Item Title/Subject: 8310 Eastwood Road Kasey Keckeisen, Community Police Officer, has set up a meeting with the renters for Tuesday, July 10th at 5:30pm, here at City Hall. At this point, staff is planning to first meet with the renters, and then determine if a meeting with neighbors would be beneficial. City Staff has been receiving complaints about this property since 2004. First about the property owners, Keith and Amanda Preciado, when they lived here, and now continuing with the group of people who have been renting the house for at least a year. Court citations were issued to both Keith and Amanda Preciado in December 2004 for operating a towing & auto repair business out of the home, along with requesting that corrective actions be taken on the property, one being to restore the grass alongside the driveway. Staff has sent several letters since September 2004 to the property owners and the renters, requesting that the dirt area next to the driveway be repaired and as of yet, nothing has been done. Both the Preciados and the renters have used this area for parking. This may not be reasonable to abate in that if the City were to fill in the area and put sod or grass seed down, the grass would need to be regularly watered by someone in order for it to survive. Staff first contacted the renters last fall, and at that time they told staff that there were five people living in the house. Staff indicated to them that there were too many people living there. City Code allows a maximum of four unrelated people to live in one residence, or a “family” of related people may have two boarders. Staff once again contacted the renters in May 2007 to determine how many people were living there, and were told that there were five. Staff again indicated that there were still too many people living in the house and that someone would need to leave. One of the renters contacted staff again at the end of May 2007 to say that he was moving out June 1st, which would leave four people living in the house. Staff has been told that the property owners, the Preciados, now live in Arizona and we have no contact information for them there. Letters sent to 8310 Eastwood Road addressed to the Property Owners and/or the Preciados since 2006 have been unanswered.