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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, March 10,2014 Page 14 were dealing with. Ms. Wilmes noted that she had called and been told by staff that it was permissible; even though she found a big pad of cement 3' from her property line to be non-neighborhood friendly and needing attention. Ms. Wilmes advised that there were boats continuously stored across the street from her property and often used as a storage unit, with five cars and the boat having been there for a year, and what the view from her front window consisted of. As A 32-year resident of Roseville, Ms. Wilmes advised that she tried to keep up her property; and understood the general policy and issues of living around the lake; however, when her neighbor only used the RV less than two weeks per year and otherwise it was basically used as a storage unit; and she was subjected to nasty comments from the neighbor if she personally asked them to address it. Ms. Wilmes noted that her neighbors could not provide any watching of her property for safety purposes due to the location of this excess equipment. Ms. Wilmes spoke to multiple cars stored at an unoccupied house; and her lack of interest in having RV's parked in front of her home on that street. Ms. Wilmes opined that it seemed that the neighbors were being required to be accommodat- ing to only two homes among sixteen total on the block and only for a few people who chose not to conform to good neighbor efforts. Ms. Wilmes suggested that the City Council look at individual versus general issues; and specifically noted that parking items on the driveway versus the street didn't help out in her situa- tion. Ms. Wilmes opined that she would like to see more response from City staff and follow-up with homeowners than done in the past; further opining that if a partic- ular party was approached by staff and they talked back, staff simply walked away. While recognizing that those people had rights, Ms. Wilmes noted that she and her neighbors did as well; and invited the City Council to see things from her home and her point of view. Ms. Wilmes offered to put her picture evidence to- gether for them. Ms. Wilmes noted that she knew she herself had made more than five complaint calls to the City, and opined that maybe they were made to the wrong people or simply not recorded by staff. Ms. Wilmes opined that this issue is out of hand in their neighborhood and they were seeing no cooperation to address the overall good of the neighbors and the community; and asked that the City consider them, not just owners of boats and/or RV's. Sarah Drinane, 2426 Cohansey Ms. Drinane expanded on her husband's previous comments. As a teacher in Mounds View and Shoreview, Ms. Drinane observed that the City of Shoreview was not listed among the cities staff had provided research; opining that this was maybe due to that City having strict ordinances about limiting on-street parking.