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1304 -81 City of Roseville ACTION REQUESTED: Proposed ordinance Regarding the Use of Newspaper 'Tubes PLANNING CONSIDERATIONS: 1 Attached is a copy of our last month's report outlining many of the considerations related to this subject. Also attached are copies of three letters received from citizens supgor ting the position that "newspaper tubes" should not be allowed in the front of our residences. Attached too for your reference is a copy of an article in the Roseville Sun ( 20 May 1981) relating to the question. We have not attached copies of previous letters from the newspapers or the opinion from our attorney that were published with last month's report. Please refer to that report for this information. 2. Since the last eeting of the Planning Commission,. we have received no additional information, nor had further contact with representatives of the newspapers. At the last meeting, and in a conference at City Mall previous to that, we have attempted to gain a better understanding o f the problem by exploring the economic issues involved relating to newspaper delivery by various methods. We believe we can .conclude that we have been relatively unsuccessful in gaining any knowledge in depth regarding this aspect of the problem. We are agar e , however, that the systems utilized by the Minneapolis gaper and others are significantly different from that systcm utilized by the Saint Paul pager . As you will recall , the Saint Paul paper representatives indicated that they contract with carriers at a set rate and that these carriers are then free to "charge whatever the traffic will bear" for the furnishing of the paper and its delivery. It appears that these prices vary widely, and that they are substantially higher for delivery by vehicle and placement in a newspaper tube. our suggestion that we learn more about the economics of delivery was by way of gaining a greater understanding of the problem. The principal issue, however, in our opinion, is that of control of land use within our objective of maintaining and contining to ]wild a desirable comurunity. . 3, We have learned since the last meeting that the City of North oaks has adopted an ordinance regarding newspaper tube placement. We are being sent A copy of this Ordinance from the City of North oaks and dope to have it for your review prior' to the Planning commission meeting of 3 June. In essence, we are informed that the Ordinance required the plat emtent of the newspaper tube within 18 inches of the f ederal post of f ice system' s - required mailbox. All mail delivery in the City of North Oaks is by way of mural mall box system, and is therefore significantly different from the situation in large areas of Roseville.