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3. Shared Building Inspector (Shoreview). The Cities of Shoreview and Arden Hills shared building inspector (Jeff Thill) has started. Jeff spent his first week learning the two cities and the two systems that those cities use to conduct building inspections. Jeff is spending the mornings with the Arden Hills and the afternoons with Shoreview. Dave is glad to have Jeff on board to assist with paperwork and inspections. 4. PTWin and GIS Demo. The Community Development Department made a concerted effort in January of 1999, to make the City's Building Permit software (PTWin) fully integrated with the City's mapping software (ArcView GIS) and its Word Processing software (Microsoft - Word). For the most part, the linkages between those software packages are complete. The Building Official (Dave Scherbel) and the Department Secretary (Susan Holmes) have been working on data entry, as time allows. I am anticipating that the system will be operating smoothly by mid-summer and would like to do a demonstfation at a late summer worksession. 5. 6 month review of 1999. The Staff will include with the July Department Head report a review of building activities for the fust half of 1999. Code Enforcement 1. Microsoft Access and GIS Demo. The Community Development Department pfesented to the City Council information on the electronic code enforcement system. The reports and maps provided with that memorandum contained the up to date information on active code enfofcement acti vi ties. Miscellaneous 1. WHAT! No Variances? The Staff recently talked to the Roseville city stafffegarding their recently implemented "setback permit" process. Essentially, in an attempt to spur additional feinvestment in an aging housing stock and avoid the hardship finding required for a variance, the City ofRoseville developed the administratively approved "setback permit" (Exhibit A). The "setback permit" allows for a reduction for a principal or accessory strUctures front, side, or fear yard setback if a set of criteria are met. As the Arden Hills continues to struggle with variances in the southern thifd of the community, this may be an intefesting way of providing those homeowners with a certain amount of flexibility to add value to their property. 2. This Old House. The Legislature in 1993, created a tax incentive plan to spur residential reinvestment in older fesidential homes (essentially a residential TIF program). The program targets homes with a value below $150,000 that are older than 35 years old (Exhibit B). The program is scheduled to end on December 31, 2002. Given that the program is ending, does the City Council want a newsletter article done on the subject Of a difect mailing to the apparently eligible homeoWllefs? , . . .