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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 17, 2018 Page 17 Councilmember Laliberte agreed that she did not want to push vehicles being stored onto the street surfaces. She thought the City should not be giving the resi- dent three weeks to make the vehicle operable. The City should look at some ways to make sure that either the vehicle is truly operable or removed from the property. Councilmember Etten stated at some level there would need to be some lead time between Code Enforcement and the resident to test a vehicle. He agreed the City did not need to give people three weeks to get a vehicle operating. There are cer- tain properties in the City that are regularly in violation of City code. He thought the City needed to document the violations with photos and notes in order to up- hold the code. He agreed this is a bigger puzzle that will not be solved immedi- ately. Mayor Roe asked staff, related to restore and repair of autos as a home occupation and as a land use violation, how is that dealt with in the Zoning Code. Mr. Englund stated that is not allowed in the City. A person is allowed to change a tire or work on a vehicle for a brief amount of time but as a home occupation, it is not allowed in the City. Mayor Roe asked if a resident could restore their own vehicle on their property. Mr. Englund stated if the vehicle is in disrepair it needs to be inside a structure and not in the driveway being repaired. Mayor Roe asked getting to a mechanism in dealing with some of the issues, is it a possible way to look at this, especially with people who have a hobby of repair- ing or restoring vehicles of their own or collecting vehicles of their own, that there could be some sort of licensing and registration system with the City? He wondered if that would make any sense. The second part would be on the rental registration program, and how much ability does the City have to control vehicles. City Attorney Gaughan in regards to the first question on registration or licensing, he asked what the purpose would be to license vehicles as well as what the trigger for enforcement would be. He stated that the City should think through not just how difficult it is to enforce but also what is the City going to do about the viola- tors. City Attorney Gaughan opined that this is a problematic area and other cities do not enforce their codes because of these issues. City Attorney Gaughan stated in regard to rental registration he was not aware of anything that attaches the number of vehicles to it. Mayor Roe asked if staff could attach a number to the rental agreement. City At- torney Gaughan asked why the City would do that, would treat rental properties differently than owner-occupied residences, which is not advisable.