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Item No: 7C Meeting Date: 2/25/02 Type of Business: CB WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business City of Mounds View Staff Report To: Honorable Mayor & City Council From: Jeremiah Anderson, Housing/Code Enforcement Inspector Item Title/Subject: First reading and introduction of Ordinance 694, amending Chapter 607, Nuisances, of the City Code Date of Report: February 13, 2002 Background: At the February 4, 2002 city council work session, council approved proposed changes to Chapter 607 of the City Code and directed staff to draft an ordinance, which incorporated these proposed changes. There are four areas within the Nuisance Code where the changes would occur. The first area is in the beginning, Section 607.01, Definitions. Section 607.06, Outside parking and storage, is the next area where changes would occur. A new Section 607.07, Vehicles Constituting a Public Nuisance, has been created. Lastly, the section titled Enforcement, has been updated and codified as Section 607.09 Discussion: Ordinance 694 was written with consideration to the input received during several city council meetings over the past year. Additionally, at the February 4, 2002 work session, the issue of firewood stored outside in the front yard of residential properties was brought to the attention of staff. At that meeting, staff mistakenly indicated that the regulations pertaining to outside storage of woodpiles were located in the City’s zoning code. After further review, it was discovered that the outside storage of wood is in fact regulated in Section 607.03 Subd. 3 of the Nuisance code. As such, staff has included changes to Section 607.03 Subd. 3 in Ordinance 694 for consideration by the city council at this time.