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-4- agreed, saying the City had advised META to contact the neighbors about their pro- - ject long before the City had been requested to give their approval and, if at this late date the developers are unable to convince those residents that their retail center would be a benefit to the neighborhood, those residents should have every right to challenge the project at the Council 's May 27th meeting when the Council would be taking final action on META's request. Councilmember Marks concurred that, although the Council was anxious to have the redevelopers clear up any misunderstandings about their project, they were unwill- ing to have staff take over META's responsibilities for seeing to it that all affected residents have an opportunity to provide input to the proposal . Councilmember Makowske indicated she expected no Council representation at the May 21st Ramsey County League of Local Governments meeting because City officials would in all probability be in attendance at the Northern Suburban Gavel Association dinner where Mayor Sundland would be the recipient of a special award for out- standing leadership in community volunteerism that same evening. However, the Councilmember indicated she perceived there might be some interest in the RCLLG meeting in June where various issues affecting only Ramsey County would be explored and in the annual picnic to be held in July. Councilmember Enrooth reported taking courses in "water hydrology" and "limnology (study of lakel" which he considered quite relevant to the City's water contamina- tion problems and concerns about Silver Lake. Councilmember Ranallo said he had been misquoted in the last Bulletin and because of the way his quote had been reported, had received several calls from residents • who questioned why the Councilmember considered "boats, campers and trailers to be 'trash' or 'junk", However, he said a redeeming feature of the article had been that it had also generated support for his own concerns about the unsightly appear- ance of some City property. The Councilmember said one person who had responded to the article by letter had encouraged him to "pursue the issue until all the Council gets behind you and takes actions which will have a real and lasting effect on some St. Anthony properties whose appearance is less than desirable" . The writer had indicated she did not consider "neatness to be dependent on a person's financial standing or the number of persons living together, but rather, on attitudes or habits, which it may be necessary for the City to try to change". The same type of comment was made by other callers, Councilmember Ranallo said, and one complainant specifically pointed out residences where garbage cans are left at the curb for almost the entire week. Councilmember Enrooth agreed that there were still some areas in the City which would require some sort of enforcement, specifically, where vehicles are parked on residential property for more than a year at a time. Mr. Childs indicated he anticipated some of these concerns would be addressed in the ordinance amendment staff had been requested to develop. However, the Manager said, the City already has an ordinance to enforce cutting grass which has grown too high. Councilmember Ranallo told the Bulletin reporter he understood many of the residents are not getting their papers on a regular basis and some had even suggested it might be better for the paper to return to the "subscription rather than donation" system • which would assure that everybody who wanted the paper would get it regularly.