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<br />Item No:7I <br />Meeting Date: August 28, 2006 <br />Type of Business: CB <br />Administrator Review: _____ <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br /> <br />To: Honorable Mayor and City Council <br /> <br />From: Jeremiah Anderson, Housing/Code Enforcement Inspector <br /> <br />Item Title/Subject: Resolution 6919 Authorizing Abatement of Code Violations <br />Outside 2318 Knoll Drive <br /> <br />Date of Report: August 17, 2006 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Background: <br />On May 22, 2006, staff inspected the property located at 2318 Knoll Drive in response to <br />allegations of exterior storage in violation of city code. Staff spoke to the property owner <br />Mr. Clifford Wies on May 22, 2006, explained the City ordinance requirements, and <br />issued a notice of violation to Mr. Wies citing Section 607.03 Subdivision 3c of the City <br />Code which required that corrective actions were completed by June 22, 2006. <br /> <br />Discussion: <br />Chapter 607 of the City Code defines and regulates nuisances. Section 607.02 defines <br />nuisances in their most general form as any act, substance, matter, emission or thing which <br />creates a dangerous or unhealthy condition or which threatens the public peace, health, safety <br />or sanitary condition of the City or which is offensive or has a blighting influence on the <br />community. Section 607.03 Subdivision 3c applies specifically to public nuisances affecting <br />peace and safety. Section 607.03 Subdivision 3c prohibits The outside piling, storing or keeping <br />of old machinery, junk, furniture, household furnishings or appliances or component parts <br />thereof, rusting metal inoperable/unusable equipment, or other debris visible on private or public <br />property. <br /> <br />A review of City records indicates that the property at 2318 Knoll drive was issued a notice of <br />violation on September 18, 2003 regarding an accumulation of junk outside and a vehicle parked <br />off an improved driveway. A second notice of violation was issued on May 24, 2004 regarding <br />vehicles parked off the improved driveway and accumulations of junk and debris outside. Each <br />of these notices cited violations of the Chapter 607 of the City Code regarding exterior storage <br />and parking vehicles off an improved surface. In each of these cases the enforcement action <br />was closed when substantial compliance was obtained, meaning that minimum requirements <br />had been satisfied. <br /> <br />Section 607.09 Subdivision 5 provides the opportunity to reach compliance by abating items in <br />violation of the requirements contained within Chapter 607. In cases where no immediate threat <br />to the public health <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />