Agenda - Planning Commission - 11/30/1995 - Special Meeting

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Lino Lakes residents are restricted from storing or parking vehicles on their private property in excess of 11,075 pounds gross weight unless a permit is obtained that complies with the following conditions: Unit is not parked more than 72 hours in a 7 day period, unit is p. arked behind the front of the dwelling, no more than one permit per residence, no idling of engme while track is parked, truck must be parked a minimum of 150 feet from the nearest lot line, tractor and trailer will remain connected. .Maple Grove residents are restricted from having more than one truck in excess of 12,000 pounds parked on their property. On June 27, 1995, the City Council reviewed the above information and directed Staff to continue to inventory names and addresses of persons in violation of the current ordinance, table action on the active applications resulting from the code sweep efforts, and schedule a Council workshop to consider amending the City Code. Council held two workshops, July 17 and September 20, to take comment from the public, review ordinances from other cities, and consider draft code amendments prepared by City Staff. At the last workshop, Council requested that the Planning Commission review the most recent draft amendments prepared by City Staff and rework them, taking the following comments into consideration: The proposed amendment to code should be considered a zoning issue and addressed in Chapter 9 rather than Chapter 5 (Condition of Premises). b) Perhaps the City should look at a special permitting process to allow persons to store and park their commercial vehicles and equipment at home. Review whether or not all existing operations should be allowed to continue to exist and only future uses should be required to get a special permit. Although it has been stated by owners of commercial vehicles that their equipment is no more of an obstruction to the visual aspect of a neighborhood than large or numerous recreational vehicles, the draft amendment should delete any proposed regulations for the parking and storing of recreational vehicles. Take into consideration that there are many self-employed persons in a community that do not own or lease commercial property and they need somewhere to store their equipment. Consider the use of plantings and fencing rather than indoor storage to screen commercially used equipment and vehicles from public right of way and neighboring properties. Reconsider the proposed 3 acre threshold; perhaps all self-employed persons with commercially used equipment in residential districts should be treated equally regardless of the size of their property. g) Commercially used pickups and vans should not have to be stored indoors. On November 9, the Planning Commission took comments from interested citizens and scheduled a special meeting for November 30 to discuss only the issue of parking and storing commercial vehicles in the residential district. Citizens were invited to submit any suggestions they had on the subject in writing to City Staff for inclusion in the November 30 agenda.