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• -11- <br /> because the house across the street had many, many cars and parts. of <br /> cars parked on the grass on the front yard; <br /> -contended that, if the price on that house has to be reduced to sell <br /> it, that would mean its valuation would also go down resulting in <br /> lower taxes for the City; <br /> -perceived the need for making the ordinance as strong as possible to <br /> protect the assets of every piece of property in the Village; but <br /> -warned the ordinance would be no good if it wasn' t strictly enforced. <br /> Carol Anderson, 3523 Edward Street N.E. <br /> -reported a family had moved to her block and allowed two young people <br /> to live in their downstairs which had resulted in five vehicles, . <br /> including two large vans and a pickup truck, being parked in the front <br /> yard; <br /> -added that two of these vheicles were parked the whole winter on the <br /> grass, in an area not even close to the driveway, which had left ruts <br /> in the front yard which still remain; <br /> • -said her concern was that, although the two extra people have since <br /> moved away, the family might repeat the same situation again; <br /> -admitted, however, that she felt some sympathy for those persons who <br /> wanted to store their recreational vehicles in their backyards; <br /> -wondered if the ordinance couldn' t be modified to allow vehicles like <br /> boats, snowmobiles, and small trailers, but not cars, in their back- <br /> yards; <br /> -said she recognized that even that might be a problem for corner lots, <br /> however; <br /> -concluded by saying she recognized this ordinance was needed because <br /> she knew of cases of prospective buyers who had decided not to move <br /> to St. Anthony because they saw too many abandoned vehicles, etc. <br /> parked on lawns which they viewed as hurting property values. <br /> The Council reacted to the residents' comments as follows: <br /> Sundland -said he believed the ordinance had been written in the first <br /> place to get at some of the incidents people were reporting <br /> to the Council; <br /> -indicated he had a particular property in mind when he first <br /> thought about such an ordinance but had been told by the <br /> • City Attorney that the problem he was concerned about was <br />