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City of Mounds View <br /> Item No: 2 <br />Meeting Date: 2/4/02 <br />Type of Business: WK <br />WK: Work Session; PH: Public Hearing; <br />CA: Consent Agenda; CB: Council Business <br />City of Mounds View Staff Report <br />To: Honorable Mayor & City Council <br /> <br />From: Jeremiah Anderson, Housing/Code Enforcement Inspector <br /> <br />Item Title/Subject: Proposed changes to Chapter 607, Nuisances <br /> <br /> <br />Date of Report: December 17, 2001 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Background: <br /> <br />At the May 7, 2001 City Council work session meeting, staff presented proposed changes to the <br />nuisance code for discussion. At the November 5, 2001 work session, this issue was discussed <br />again. All proposed changes have been made in conjunction with these two discussions. <br /> <br />Many of the proposed changes are for clarification purposes and to eliminate confusion. <br />Additionally, legal council has explained that it is not necessary to include Minnesota Statutes <br />verbatim within a city ordinance, however, staff feels that it is necessary to include the relevant <br />Statutes within the ordinance because it may eliminate confusion when residents request a copy <br />of the ordinance and notice many references to other state statutes. <br /> <br />There are four areas within the Nuisance Code where the proposed changes would occur. The <br />first area is in the beginning, Section 607.01, Definitions. Section 607.06, Outside parking and <br />storage, is the next area that proposed changes would occur. A new Section 607.07, Vehicles <br />Constituting a Public Nuisance, has been created. Lastly, the section titled Enforcement, has <br />been updated and codified as Section 607.09 <br /> <br />Discussion: <br /> <br />The first area of proposed changes is in Section 607.01, Definitions. The changes to <br />this section include adding the definitions that were stricken out in Section 607.06, <br />Outside Parking and Storage. Other definitions from Section 607.06 Subd.5, Special <br />Provisions have been added here and stricken out from that location. Having all the <br />definitions in one place make the Chapter easier to understand and provides <br />consistency. Of particular note is Subdivision. 10 of this Section, which lists the