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AGENDA ITEM – 1H <br />MEMORANDUM <br />DATE: September 21st, 2020 <br />TO: Honorable Mayor and City Councilmembers <br />Dave Perrault, City Administrator <br />FROM: Joe Hartmann, Associate Planner <br />SUBJECT: Discussion on waste container storage at residential properties <br />Council shall consider <br />The City Council shall consider amending City Code Section 660.05, Subd. 8 to provide <br />clarification on where waste containers can be stored on residential properties on collection day. <br />Background <br />Staff recently has received complaints regarding the placement of waste containers being placed <br />within the right-of-way. Upon investigation of the complaint, staff determined that containers <br />were encroaching into the right -of-way. <br />City code addresses waste container storage on non-collection days. City Code Section 660.05 <br />Subd. 1, (A) states, “Containers shall be stored within an enclosed building, or in the side or rear <br />yard adjacent to a structure. Containers shall not be stored in the front yard forward of the <br />principal structure.” This code section does not address how waste containers are allowed to be <br />stored outside on trash day for collection. City Code Section 660.05, Subd. 8 states that, “Refuse <br />and recycling containers from single-family dwellings shall be placed at their assigned collection <br />location the night before, or the day of collection. Containers shall be removed no more than <br />twelve (12) hours after the scheduled collection day.” Yet, this code section does not address the <br />location in which the containers may be placed on trash day, only the duration in which they can <br />be left outside of their assigned collection location. <br />Discussion <br />Staff is looking to direction from Council if they would like to amend the ordinance to provide <br />clarification on where waste containers can be stored on residential properties on collection day. <br />Page 1 of 2