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MEMORANDUM <br />To: <br />From: <br />Due; <br />Sttbject: <br />Ron Moorse, City Adminisirator <br />Mike Gai&on. Planning Director <br />January 9,2004 <br />Background Regarding Vehicle Storage Ordinance <br />During suntmer and fall 2003 staff and Plamnng Commission worked on an u^idate and revision to the <br />vehicle storage ordinances. This was in large part due to the obvious long-s landing need for an <br />ordinance that would address contemporary issues as Orono has changed and developed from the <br />primarily 'lakeshore cabins and farms’ 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 />Timm/Hagen situation, that situation did provide an immediate focus point fo: discussions However, <br />vehicle storage has been an ongoing issue for certam 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 m a neighborhood. <br />Other existing current examples include: <br />- Stubbs Bay Movers activity (non-confomung use on Old Crystal Bay Road) <br />• Vem Hubbell Excavating on Watertown Road - contractor whu stores his trucks and <br />sometimes dumps excess loads, on this residential property; few if any past <br />complaints, but new- neighbors are going to be building expensive homes in the woods <br />just east of his operation... <br />• Kim Edwards - landscaping business on Woodhaven Drive <br />• Sporadic truck 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 east of Hwy 12 just north of Luce Line <br />• (Thuck Henke in Navarre <br />- Dick Ledstrom - all kinds of vehicles 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 we can probably find a few more if we think bard enough...