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MEMORANDUM <br />To:Ron Mooroe, City Administrator <br />From:Mike Gaffron, Plarmin^: Director <br />Date:January 9, 2004 <br />Subject: Background Regarding Vehicle Storage Ordinance <br />During summer and fall 2003 staff and Planning Commission worked on an update and revision to the <br />vehicle storage ordinances. This was in large part due to the obvious long standing need for an <br />ordinance that would address contemporary issues as Orono has changed and developed fiom the <br />primarily 'lakeshore cabins and fanns ’ character of the 1960s to a more ‘urban lakeshore and large-lot <br />suburban ’ mode. This was a natural next step following the Boat Storage ordinance of 2001. While it <br />would be incorrect to suggest that the vehicle storage ordinance was solely a direct response to the <br />Tiinm/Hagen situation, tlrat situation did provide an inunediate focus point for discussions. However, <br />vehicle storage has been an ongoing issue for certain properties throughout Orono for many years, and <br />the Hagen/Timm situation is not by any means the first or only instance of large vehicle activity that has <br />caused or has the potential to cause problems in a neighborhood. <br />Other existing current examples include: <br />- Stubbs Bay Movers activity (non-conforming use on Old Crystal Bay Road) <br />- Vem Hubbell Excavating on Watertown Road - conUactor who stores his trucks and <br />sometimes dumps excess loads, on this residential property; few if any past <br />complaints, but new neighbors arc going to be building expensive homes in the woods <br />just cast of his operation... <br />- Kim Edwards - landscaping business on Woodhaven Drive <br />• Sporadic tmek storage at Hannings on Co. Rd. 6 <br />- Lawn guy across from Sansevere <br />- Truck storage (rental space) at a detached garage on Russell Avenue <br />- Tree Care guy cast of Hwy 12 just north of Luce Line <br />- Chuck Henke in Navane <br />- Dick Ledstrom - all kinds of veliiclcs and stuff stored at property abutting north end of <br />Lurton Park property - Vacuum trucks, railroad salvage business... <br />- Rossing sons tree/firewood business on Cygnet Place <br />- Trucker at 4575 Wayzata Boulevard (south of RR, parks semi trailer/tractor on site) <br />- and wc can probably find a few more if we think hard enough...