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March 25, 2025 Page 3 legitimate exercise of Constitutional rights, including free speech, expression, press, religion, etc. (ADDED A TIMEFRAME FOR SOLICITORS OF 7:00am – 9:00pm, which is consistent with current SAV Code language. Roseville uses this same time limit. New Brighton does not appear to have a limit. Columbia Hts. uses 9:00am – 9:00pm, M-Sat, Noon – 6:00pm Sunday) Sections 11. and 12. Adoption/Admin language. There are several sections of the code dealing with enforcement, and that refer to the Code “Enforcement” Official. This language will be replaced with the revised title Code “Compliance” Official. Secondly, the current zoning language has a number of sections that refer to “permitted” activities. Many of these are more accurately rendered as “allowed” activities. Because a “Permitted Use” is a term of art that refers specifically to uses that DO NOT require further permitting, the text is being updated to inclusively refer to “allowed” uses, which may be permitted, licensed, conditional, or require some other process. (NO CHANGES) Section 13. Recreational Fires. This section makes changes to recreational burning in the following ways, in response to Fire Department recommendations and recent experiences with recreational fires in the community: • Adds a restriction for fire size that reduces allowable height for portable fireplaces, reducing the allowance for 3 feet (for ground-level fires) to 2 feet. • Specifies that manufactured materials (such as treated wood, plastic, etc. is not to burned in a recreational fire. • Adds clarification to the 25 foot setback for recreational fires. • Adds a requirement to extinguish the fire if it is not in compliance with the code; and • Replaces statutory references with a general requirement for compliance (due to constantly changing statutes, rules, and other regulations). (DELETED DUPLICATE SUBPARAGRAPH) Section 14. Nuisance Noise. This section modifies the recently adopted language to set a noise decibel level at the property line, rather than a distance measurement. While the distance measurement is arguably easier to measure, it is subjective, in that it depends on the subjective impression of the listener. The revised language is a numeric measurement by a decibel meter. This is a verifiable standard, and while not perfect, there are a variety of smartphone apps that provide an easy method of approximating decibel measurements to aid in ensuring compliance. (NO CHANGES) Section 15. Dangerous Dogs. This section is proposed to be updated to add definitions for various terms used in the text of the existing code (and makes one statutory reference update). The definitions are for “Dangerous Dog”, “Potentially Dangerous Dog”, “Proper Enclosure”, and 21