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REQUEST FOR COUNCIL ACTION DATE: 04-27-98 ITEM NO:PF3014 ITEM NO.: c-4 Agenda Section: Consent APPROVAL OF SPRING, 1998 YMCA GARAGE SALE Background: The YMCA has requested approval of a special garage set up and sale promotion permit for Tuesday, May 12 through Sunday, May 17th, 1998. The City Code, Section 1004.011, states that a normal residential garage sale may be up to 3 days long , three times during anyone calendar year. The sale must be held between the hours of 8:00 am and 6:00pm. For garage sales/promotions that will vary from those standards, the Code requires Council approval. The YMCA Sale varies in the following ways: 1) It is longer than 3 days of sales (Tuesday, May 12th through Sunday May 17th). 2) The set-up period will begin three days prior to the sale. (Saturday, May 9th) 3) Because of the magnitude of this garage sale promotion, a portion of the items for sale will most likely be stored on the yard, not within the garage or screened areas. From the staff perspective, the YMCA Sale/Promotion has been so successful that it has outgrown the intent of residential garage sale section of the code. It has become more of an bi-annual sale/celebration. The purposes of the YMCA Sale/Promotion are unique and valid; the location of such a community event should be re-evaluated in the future. There should be some method in which community organizations and the city can jointly find a more appropriate location for such events. Examples might include city parks, city parking lots, joint use parking lots at shopping centers, church parking lots and ball fields. Such sites may have more parking, adequate pedestrian safety zones, signage, visibility, sanitary systems, lighting, and perhaps security. No alternatives could be agreed upon that would solve problems. The organizers feel they have created good will in the neighborhood and have had no neighborhood complaints. 1