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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,December 8, 2014 Page 25 actually belonged to the apartment building, and in her opinion, certainly repre- sented a code violation. Councilmember McGehee expressed her confidence that Community Development Director Bilotta would alert the City's code enforce- ment team to remedy the situation; and also suggested a review by the City's Po- lice Department and other Community Development staff. Councilmember McGehee opined that it seemed to be a very unfortunate situation back there, and looked ramshackle, and unsafe. Councilmember McGehee opined that the area looked like a frequently used pathway to area businesses, and suggested that the City encourage beautification of the area, or even suggested that the City beautify the area itself if it was easement property. Since the area was side enough to drive a car through, Councilmember McGehee noted that obviously provided clear access with kids using the hill for sledding. Councilmember McGehee fur- ther opined that there were some real opportunities for the City to get together with constituents to put something nice together back there and make it safer than it appeared today. Councilmember McGehee expressed her appreciation of pre- vious public comments; and opined that a lot of the responsibility belonged to the City of Roseville since the easement area belonged to the City; and obviously the Pawn Shop was not the biggest contributor to the mess. Mayor Roe asked for an update from neighbors on the progress between them and Pawn America representatives since the last meeting. Councilmember Etten concurred, asking neighbors to speak about where they were at with those discussions. Public Comment Sherry Sanders—363 S McCarrons Blvd. As Chair of the McCarron's Neighborhood Association, Ms. Sanders displayed a map of property owners in the immediate area. Other Board Members from the Neighborhood Association appearing included Jim Moncour, 294 N McCarron's Blvd.; Diane Hilden, 466 Bayview, and Ricky Sanders, 166 S. McCarron's Blvd., owner of the property directly affected by the Pawn America remodel. Ms. Sanders thanked the City Council for the ability to speak to this issue. Ms. Sanders reported on the Board meeting with Pawn America representative, Chuck Armstrong, noting his sincere desire to assist the neighborhood with the noise, trash and light issues, and offered to make an appeal to the McCarron's Hill Shopping Center for installation of a fence. However, during the meeting with Mr. Armstrong, Ms. Sanders advised that a problem beyond that of concerns with Pawn America was discovered, on the whole easement used by foot traffic separating homes from the shopping center and from the apartments located behind Larpenteur, Woodbridge and Marion.