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City of Gem Lake Planning Commission: Meeting —March 14, 2023 Meeting Minutes.. Planning Commission Chair Joshua Patrickcalled the meeting to order at 7:00 p.m, Commission Mcnibers:.Don Cummings,. and%Derek W.ippich'and Art .Pratt were present. Not .present was Corn mission.. Member Stephanie. Farrell. A.lsp. present: City Attorney Kevin Beck; City Planner Evan Monson. and Acting City Clerk Melissa Lawrence, March 14. 2023 Agenda A motion was made. by Commissioner Pratt to accept the agenda, seconded by Commissioner Cummings. Voice Vote taken,. all voted yes, motion passes, agenda accepted. Minutes A. motion was made by Commissioner Pratt .to approve: the. February 14, 2023, Planning Commission Meeting minutes, seconded by Commissioner Cummings. Voice vote taken, all voted yes; motion passes, ininu.tes.are approved. Public Bearings None Old Business Discussion of Nuisance Ordinance No.96 Commissioii Chair Patrick started the discussion by. review ing what .the commission discussed.at. their:Iast meeting. Commission Chair Patrickstated that he reached out to Mike Johnson,.Building Official and Code Enforcement; of White .Bear Township to talk about what.the Planning.Commission can do to help make the.nuisance Ordinance better,. Mike Johnson felt that the ordinance could be rriore streamlined and the lan,uage:regard ing enforcement could be tightened up a Iittle more. Commission Chair Patrick also shared that after a conversation with the Mayor a.:suggestion came up. regarding banning on. street parking along Scheuneman Road. Commissioner Cummings shared that he did a little more research on nuisance ordinances in other nearby cities. He feels that the City should consider aligning its ordinance to be: more like White Bear Township's or White Bear Lake.'s or a combination of both given the fact. that the Ck's police services are outsdurced to White. Sear Lake and.. Code..Enforcemant is outsourced to W hite Sear Township. Commissioner Wippich would like to.see some language added regardin&golf carts and UTWs. The current ordinance only covers ATV'.s and snowmobiles. He would also like to.see some 1..an. guage regarding. dead, dangera.us and diseased trees. He also feels. that overall. banning of parking is.not the best route to take and the City.could instead regulate that there be no overnight.parking. Commission Chair Patrick would like to see language added regardingthe piling, dumping. and importing' of snow from off -site locations. P.er.the Mayor's suggestion to Commission Chair Patrick to use the April workshop date to invite residents to City Hall to give their.suggestions, no one orn.the commission was interested in holding this workshop. Acting, City Clerk Melissa Lawrence will send each member.of tha conuriission the word document of the Nuisance ordinance so that they can: edit the document with suggested changes that will be brotjght to the .next Plarming.Commission meeting;. New Business None 0tyof Lein Lake Plan ning.Coinrnission. Meeting Minutes February 14, 2023 11 . ,,