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MOUNDS ]VIEW MEMORANDUM to: Mounds View City Council from: Nyle Zikmund, City Administrator re: Item 7 - 2817 Bronson (Complainant) & 7501 Groveland (Complaint Against) date: May 1, 2019 Executive Summary: Residential complaint against adjacent neighbor doing car repair and using wood heat in garage. Complainant disturbed by noise, fumes and parking as well as smoke from wood stove. See full report below. Car repair operation and stove are, practically speaking all code compliant. However, the wood burning stove smoke is an irritant as it prohibits complainant from parking their RV in its traditional spot given close proximity to smoke and subsequent odor impact to RV. This is the only complaint we have from one resident against another specific to a home occupation doing automobile repair. Options: Options for council are limited to amending code to disallow any auto repair business (generating revenue) from operating in a residential setting. History: November 5 2018 — Annette Hurtado and behalf of herself and her wife Susan Gaertner appeared at Council Workshop to share/discuss neighbor at 7501 Groveland who was operating an automobile repair shop. Fall/Winter — Jacob had numerous conversations and exchanges with her. April 24, 2019 — Annette emails council with numerous concerns (addressed below) April 25, 2019 — Administrator Zikmund travels to site at 4:15 AM until 4:45 AM accompanied by Officer Aase. We do not witness any on -street parking violations. Later that morning (8:15 am to 10:00 AM) Zikmund meets with Annett and Susan and resident of 7501 — Steve — who the alleged complaints are against. I spoke with Annette and Susan, then proceeded on foot to 7501 where I spoke with Steve for approximately 20/25 minutes and he allowed me to see and observe his operation and then I returned to 2817 Bronson and visited with Annette and Susan again and covered the following; 1. 607.01 Subd. 5 Junk — advises her that the wood pallet, tarp and front end of a car are in fact violations but not so egregious as to warrant an action. a. Both the tarp and pallet were newer/not deteriorated and minimally meet the definition of junk.