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-17- the City Attorney had already indicated the Ordinance wouldn' 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 let- 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 problem 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;