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Mounds View City Council March 14, 2005 <br />Regular Meeting Page 12 <br /> <br />were to rent garages out for storage space to outside parties, they end up spending in excess of 1 <br />$1,300 for court costs and dumping charges to get rid of it when the parties don’t pay, so it 2 <br />doesn’t make economic sense. He stated that most young people today who rent apartments 3 <br />don’t want to rent a garage, and they want to park in the parking lot close to the apartment doors. 4 <br />He added that as part of this improvement they will be regarding and resurfacing the parking lot. 5 <br /> 6 <br />Director Ericson suggested perhaps a compromise would be to approve the Resolution with the 7 <br />addition that if all 100 garages were to become rented out, that would trigger a requirement to 8 <br />build 25 more. 9 <br /> 10 <br />Council Member Flaherty stated a concern regarding this being a common garage because of 11 <br />storage of paint thinners and other hazardous waste products. He stated he agreed with the 12 <br />concept of building less garages because of the low percentage of rental of the existing garages. 13 <br /> 14 <br />Council Member Gunn stated she would like to approve this variance, and she would like to 15 <br />request that staff come back with a resolution. 16 <br /> 17 <br />Council Member Stigney stated he could not see a hardship, and the City Council is bound by 18 <br />following the same Code that the Planning Commission is bound by. 19 <br /> 20 <br />Mayor Marty stated that possibly a code change is warranted, but he couldn’t vote against a 21 <br />city ordinance without a hardship being demonstrated. 22 <br /> 23 <br />Council Member Flaherty stated he would like to go ahead and grant the variance with the stipu- 24 <br />lation that Director Ericson had mentioned previously regarding the extra 25 garages. 25 <br /> 26 <br />Council Member Thomas asked when the applicant had to have this finalized by. 27 <br /> 28 <br />Mr. Menning that if there were all approvals, they would be looking at July or August. 29 <br /> 30 <br />Council Member Flaherty asked if he was in favor of putting a clause in regarding perhaps an 31 <br />85 percent occupancy that would trigger building more garages. 32 <br /> 33 <br />Mr. Menning stated he would love to have 78, because that is what he honestly felt he could 34 <br />do. He stated the worst case scenario would be to come back and say he would build 125. He 35 <br />stated that he has been doing this for 30 years, and he knows how many he can rent. 36 <br /> 37 <br />Council Member Flaherty stated he would like to grant the variance with the stipulation Director 38 <br />Ericson had suggested, and then send the code back to the Planning Commission to review for 39 <br />possible amendment. He stated that common sense dictates that they allow him to move forward 40 <br />with his project with that stipulation. 41 <br /> 42 <br />Council Member Gunn stated they could also have staff come up with a new resolution, or they 43 <br />could table the request right now and have the Planning Commission make the modifications to 44 <br />the Code that need to be done. 45