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1304 -S1 City of Roseville A,CTION REQUESTED: Proposed ordinance Regarding the Use of Newspaper 'pubes 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 supporting 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 meeting 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 conf erence at City Nall previous to that, we have attempted to gain a better understanding of 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 aware, however, that the systems utilized by the Minneapolis paper and others are significantly different from that system utilized by the Saint Paul paper. 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 ccmmunity. . 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 hope 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 placement of the newspaper tube within 16 inches of the federal post office syst i s required 'mailbox. All mail delivery in the City of North Oaks is by way of rural mail box system, and is therefore significantly different from the situation in large areas of Roseville.