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Regular City Council Meeting <br /> Monday, September 17, 2018 <br /> Page 19 <br /> Mayor Roe asked if the City can state there cannot be any storage of vehicles in <br /> the right-of-way if the City defines storage, even if it is moveable. Mr. Englund <br /> believed it is in code already that nothing can be stored in the right-of-way. <br /> 2. Enhancement to 2018 Neighborhood Enhancement Program (NEP) <br /> /Proactive Code Enforcement <br /> Mr. Englund reviewed the staff report with the Council. He stated using the door <br /> hanger for compliance violation notification has been well received and has yield- <br /> ed a compliance rate of over 80%. He thought if the City could expand the <br /> neighborhood enhancement program to meet resident perception, that Code En- <br /> forcement covers the entire City every year, that may be a way to uniformly pro- <br /> actively inspect the entire City in a season to address the repeat item where most <br /> of them are three years later where the City would be coming back to the same <br /> neighborhood. <br /> Mr. Englund felt if Code Enforcement was to do the entire City over a season that <br /> would reduce a lot of the code compliance cases staff gets on a reactive basis. <br /> Code Enforcement would be addressing them before it comes to a level where <br /> residents would want to call in to complain. In addition, the City could look at <br /> repeat nuisance ordinances and expanding the time frame it is able to be used. <br /> Currently it is three violations within a one-year period. A longer time frame may <br /> reduce the number of repeat properties the Code Department sees. With the Pro- <br /> active through NEP the City does see a higher rate of rental properties with have <br /> issues. He stated approximately one percent of the properties in Roseville are <br /> rental, but the City has about thirty percent of the code compliance cases are on <br /> the one percent rental properties. It is a significant area that has more issues. <br /> Mayor Roe asked if there was a financial impact to inspect the whole City. <br /> Mr. Englund did not believe there would be in regard to what the EDA currently <br /> funds. What may need to happen is the City may need to use an additional sea- <br /> sonal inspector for the City building code inspections. That would be funded <br /> through community development through building permits. Typically, and histor- <br /> ically, the inspector for NEP has been funded by the NEP and the Community <br /> Development Department because it was not a position that could be staffed for <br /> one purpose year round. <br /> Mayor Roe asked if the EDA levies for the NEP mitigation annually, so the levy <br /> would be $100,000 annually. Part of this pays for the inspections and part of it <br /> pays for the mitigation if the City does an accelerated abatement. Mr. Englund <br /> stated that is under a separate fund and the EDA is an existing balance. The City <br /> does not levy for that, only for the inspections and the NEP part of it. <br /> Councilmember Willmus stated the City has permit fees that are established and <br /> directly tied to what that item is that the permit is being pulled for. He asked how <br />