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-17- the City Attorney had already indicated the Ordinance . :wou•ldn'.t -apply- to guests because the Ordinance only. re- fers •'to vehicles operated or kept on the, lot by the occupant of the residence; told Mr. Misiac the -City would not be making him get rid of of any of the cars his .family needs; reiterated what Mr-. Childs and Mr. Soth 'had told .Mr.. Hastay that the Ordinance had- been designed to prevent people .from gravelling their .backyards .but no 'action- would be taken against him because of: the graveled surface he already had in that area or because he reconditioned. it since it , is grandfathered in; -reiterated that an ordinance was the .only vehicle the City had to force some of the worst situations to be corrected because the neighbors' conversations with the offenders; police attempts to contact them; and even registered ie_t- ters, had failed to-solve the situation in the past; . -told Mr. Hastay some of the complainers about certain situ- ations had- not .wanted to be .identified; • -said the Ordinance might not solve all the problems it was geared towards, but at least future problems might be avoided if staff- could make new residents aware of the .- Ordinance' s existance; - -concurred with Councilmember Marks that paragraph 14 would not solve the problems with front loaders, etc. in front yards , but some other tack would have to be taken to solve . that problem. Soth -said the problem with trying to draw the line between the type of vehicles a resident can keep on his property is -one of semantics. Where do you draw the line in defining what' s "residential" and what' s not? Childs -perceived the intent of the Ordinance had been to identify problem spots and work with the people' to get them. squared away; told-Mr. `Getter the :police:would always document any ongoing parking probiem. to. be certain the vehicles belonged to the occupant and not to :guests, etc. who had left them. there temporarily. Marks -said he was not- comfortable with telling people .they have to go through a variance procedure- to park .more than, four .cars in their driveways;