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Mounds View City Council • Regular Meeting Page Five January 25, 1993 Mayor Linke stated that he concurred with Councilmember Rickaby's concern regarding the hardship that property owners would incur and that perhaps the ordinance should read, "with the exception of directly adjacent to owners' driveway." Councilmember Wuori asked if a difference in policy could legally be adopted to differentiate between commercial property and residential property. Bill Frits, 8072 Long Lake Road, asked what is going to be done with the snow on Long Lake Road. Mr. Frits stated that a homeowner further down Long Lake Road has timber that comes down to the lot and easement line and is approximately 4 to 4 1/2 feet high. The Council promised the snow would be removed from the sidewalk and Mr. Frits hopes that this happens. The 4 to 4 1/2 foot high wall is too high to throw snow over so the snow would have to be hauled away. Mayor Linke stated that he doesn't know the distance between the wall and the sidewalk and that this isn't the issue at hand. Samantha Orduno, City Administrator, asked how many feet was available adjacent to the average driveway. How many feet adjacent to a driveway would a property owner need to store snow? Orduno asked if the • ordinance could read, "...in the street, sidewalk or in the first 10 feet adjacent to a driveway or ingress or egress. Minetor replied 10 feet. Minetor stated that if the City allows snow storage on the boulevards it is taking snow storage space away from itself and it would cost the City more money to load snow out of those areas. Councilmember Quick stated that the snow from the sidewalk can be piled so high and then it falls back onto the sidewalk and, therefore, has to be moved back into yard. Councilmember Quick stated that, in his opinion, the ordinance is written correctly. Councilmember Rickaby stated that the Council is discussing a very sensitive issue because people objected to the sidewalks in the beginning and now the City is adding another hardship by having the property owners haul the snow. Alice Frits, 8072 Long Lake Road, stated her solution would be to eliminate the sidewalks. Duane McCarty, 8060 Long Lake Road, asked how many city streets fit the description in this ordinance? The way the ordinance reads, whether there is a sidewalk or not, there is to be no snow on the boulevards. Mayor Linke stated that the purpose of the ordinance is to keep people from depositing snow on other property without permission of the property owner.