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April 22, 2025 Page 3 Sections 9 and 10. This section addresses transient merchants and peddlers. The City Code has a number of licensing and procedural requirements for such merchants, but notes also that any such merchant is required to hold a county license. In researching this process, it was noted that both Hennepin and Ramsey County have extensive licensing requirements for transient merchants and peddlers. Staff proposes deletion of this City licensing/regulatory requirement to eliminate overlap and clarify regulatory responsibilities. One existing short section is retained, specifying that the intent of the [County] licensing may not be to limit anyone’s 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) (Per discussion at the 3/25/25 Council meeting, no change was made to these hours). 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. 69