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} -18- • to resident input and hopefully, finally writing .a workable law which will get to.. the bottom of- the - problems residents are complaining about. . He said this supported his - :contention • that the Council does listen to the . residents and is sincere about getting an enforceable ordinance;. _ ,. ..: , -cautioned against writing an ordinance -which resulted in "a parade of people" coming before the Council to get 'variances . Ranallo said �he still thought- most people wanted some restriction , of the number of vehicles and wondered.-if .five might be a more reasonable number for the vehicles listed . in the Ordi- nance as long as they. .can -only. be parked on surfaced areas. . Makowske -said she didn' t think it was the number of vehicles that bothered most people but rather most of - the residents who had called her had been more concerned about the appearance of lawns after cars are parked on them all winter. Ranallo said one of his callers had complained about a large sailboat which had been parked on his neighbor 's lawn for a long time and even hung out over the City' s boulevard. Marks - reiterated that he still maintained the timing -aspects of any restrictions had to be addressed. Soth -said it would be easy to write procedures into -the: Ordinance but perceived the City would have to be very specific regarding the number of vehicles which could :be• parked in an area for a specified time. He suggested the Council might . even have to address the question of •whether the vehicles were owned or operated by the homeowners. In regard to the number of unrelated persons who would be allowed to . live in a residence, Mr. Lofgren suggested the Council might want to specify. that "only a - homeowner and three unrelated .. persons could live in a residence" because he perceived an owner wouldn' t want to ."trash his own investment. " . -There-.was- general agreement. that -specifying four unrelated persons in this manner might provide a satisfactory method of preventing what Councilmember Makowske had been .afraid. of. Council Action Motion ',by-:. - Ranallo-, ,seconded by .Makowske to:-.request- the -City Attorney to rewrite the Ordinance .along. the •lines - of, the•:.ideas:: the Council ,had;..thrown out that '-evening and to delay -the .f•irst- reading of the Ordinance until - ztaff. has,: ,figured .:-out a :' way of letting-•::.-.the -residents . ...know . when the Council-.would: be giving :the- first reading .to- the-'changes. • = Motion carried unanimously.