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Item No: 10D Meeting Date: January 8, 2001 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: Consideration of First Reading and Introduction of ordinance 674, an ordinance amending Chapter 1005, Housing, of the Mounds View Municipal Code. Date of Report: January 4, 2001 Background: At the December 4, 2000 City Council work session meeting, Council approved the proposed revisions to Chapter 1005, Housing Code, of the Mounds View municipal code and directed staff to draft an ordinance based on the proposed revisions. Ordinance 674 has been drafted and amends several areas of the existing Housing Code and will provide the City’s residents with a Housing Code that is clear and understandable, as well as easily administrated by the City of Mounds View. Ordinance 674 accomplishes this by using a two-tier approach: 1.) Ordinance 674 builds and strengthens the existing Housing code by providing language that is more specific and direct. 2.) Ordinance 674 clarifies the enforcement provisions of the Housing Code by establishing an Enforcement Officer. Discussion: The majority of proposed ordinance 674 addresses clarification items regarding the enforcement of the Housing Code. This is accomplished by establishing an Enforcement Officer, who is the primary party responsible for the enforcement of the Housing Code. Other proposed amendments to the Housing Code that are addressed by Ordinance 674 include language that is more specific and direct in nature, which would be accomplished by building and strengthening the current language in areas of the Housing Code that are vague and unclear. This in turn, would help eliminate potential “loop holes” and other “gray areas” in the Housing Code. Ordinance 674 does not add new material to the existing Housing Code; it amends the existing Housing Code to provide clarification on the enforcement of the Housing Code and clarifies areas of the Housing Code that are vague and unclear.