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ARDEN HILLS CITY COUNCIL - February 9, 2009 6 Civil Engineer Giga stated that there was some funding for the project in the 2010 Capital Improvement Plan. MOTION: Councilmember Holden moved and Councilmember McClung seconded a motion to Receive the Valentine Park Drainage Analysis Report. The motion carried unanimously (4-0). B. A Motion to Approve Ordinance 2009-004 to Amend the Nuisance and Abatement Ordinance as presented in the. February 9tt 2009tt report to the City Council. A Motion to Approve Publishin2 a Summary of Ordinance 2009- 004. Community Development Director Lehnhoff stated that in response to Councilmember Holden's earlier question regarding the number of open permits, page 7 of the year in review report shows 741 open permits and 583 of those are under two years old. Community Development Director Lehnhoff stated that this was an update to Chapter 6 of the City's Nuisance Ordinance. Specifically it would repeal the existing Section 600 and replace it with Section 602. Essentially what this section does is define what a public nuisance is, provides a list of types of nuisances that qualify as public nuisances, the procedures for resolving nuisances, and allows the City to abate nuisances and charge back to the property owner. He reviewed the changes and updates in the section pointing out the addition of the accelerated abatement procedure. Councilmember Grant stated that Section 602.01, Item 1 states: "maintains or permits a condition which unreasonable annoys, injures or endangers the safety, health, morals, comfort or repose of any considerable number of members of the public." He asked for clarification on what was defined as morals. City Attorney Jerry Filla explained that there is a corresponding section on public nuisances that addresses those kinds of activities which was eliminated because it was mainly covered by State statutes. The word morals should have been taken out of this sentence. Councilmember Grant asked for clarification regarding the phrase "on public property" in Section 602.02, Item 6. He asked if a resident stated that there were noxious weeds on public property if the City would be responsible for taking care of it.