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Regular City Council Meeting Monday,April 15, 2019 Page 6 coverage of the Neighborhood Enhancement Program to inspect approximately one-half of the properties within the City annually. Mayor Roe noted that he had highlighted this proposed change in his State of the City address earlier this year- as if it was already going to happen. Councilmember Willmus asked if the inspections would cover commercial prop- erties as well. Mr. Englund stated it would cover Commercial, Public and Multi-Family. Councilmember Etten stated he was a big fan of these proposed changes. Councilmember Laliberte indicated she was supportive of these two changes as well. Mr. Englund reviewed Limiting Outside Storage of Vehicles on Residential Prop- erty with the City Council. Councilmember Willmus stated the one thing that would give him pause with the stored vehicle language as written is a stored vehicle very realistically will go from the driveway to the street. He thought when this was discussed in Septem- ber that was one of the concerns he had because he did not want to move a prob- lem from one area to another. He would support the language with regard to the vehicle being used as a portable storage unit. He thought that made sense to him, but he struggled with some of the other aspects to it. Mayor Roe did not the think as the definition is written of stored vehicles, that it specifies it to be on the property and he did not know if that was intentional or if that was to allow the potential to regulate a vehicle stored on the City street in some fashion. Mr. Englund stated this was the closest he could come to defining a stored vehi- cle. He found one reference nationwide to this. City Attorney Gaughan stated his only reaction to this is the enforcement end of things. The scenario that comes to him is moving the vehicle back and forth from the driveway to the street and therefore outside of the regulation by having moved it. There is also the overcoming the burden of proof with the property owner. Councilmember Etten understood the City Attorney's points. He was not sure if this is the right way to police or not, but neighbors get frustrated when people have six or more vehicles stacked in a driveway and those cars never move. He did not know what the right answer is to this. He thought this is certainly a thing people have frustration with.