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51690.10 TO: FROM: DATE: Mayor and City Council Mark E. Bernhardson, City Administrato^^ May 1990 COUNCIL MEETING MAY 2 9 1990 CITY OF ORONO SUBJECT: Transient Merchants Attachment:A. Council Minutes 4/11/88, 4/25/88 and 6/23/88 B. Ordinance No. 5.30 Solicitors C. Ordinance No. 50, 2nd Series Amending 5.30 in Part D. Labatt Letter Dated 4/20/90 E. Penke Note Dated 5/13/90 F. Butterfield Letter Dated 5/21/90 G. Kilbo Memo Dated 5/25/89 H. Mobile Peddlers 4/1/88 ISSUE 1. Updating Council regarding selected solicitors licenses in the Navarre area and the City generally. 2. Determine if Council desires a license to be issued. INTRODUCTION - As Council may recall the issue . sol^icj.tors licenses and location of those in Navarre was raised in 1988. As noted in Attachment A at the time the solicitor was allowed to receive their license and to continue in the residential location wi"-h the owner being allowed to submit for rezoning of the property in conjunction with an overall Navarre Master Plan. Obviously the Navarre Master Plan has not had any strong interest in moving forward. The City has again recently received complaints and a review of the records indicated that the individual who did have licenses in 1988 apparently was selling in 1989 without licenses and has continued i*' without licenses on residentailly zoned property (3790 Shoreline Drive.) DISCUSSION - AS you will note in Attachrarnt B related to the Ordinance the elements for permitting transient sales ate as follows: A. The individual be licensed. B. That it be on commercially zc.ned property. C. That the location is at the discretion of the Police Chief when taking into account safety issues. The policy issue of whether the City should allow such transient merchants at all has up to this point not been directly addressed by Council apart from licensing. It has been suggested