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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, May 6,2019 Page 8 eliminated quite a bit of stuff already and plans on eliminating more. He under- stands the City's position as well. Mayor Roe asked if the stack of landscape block along the property is being used as a fence. Mr. Acree stated that was correct. These are landscape blocks and very expensive. He has obtained a permit for this and it is being installed for privacy. He reported the fence does not touch his neighbors' fence. He noted the fence along his back- yard does have a tendency to lean a little due to the water that is back there, and he does not know where the water is from. He stated all of the cars in his yard are operable as well. He said he is willing to do whatever it takes to fix this situation. Mayor Roe asked if City Staff had a sense in terms of some of the Code issues re- lated to impervious coverage or planting or other treatment of properties. He un- derstood this was not being brought forward but wondered if staff had any sense to that on this property. Mr. Englund stated staff did do an impervious calculation on this property and not looking at any of the items, the property was at approximately 47% coverage, the allowable is 30%. There is a large pool and large patio so it is expected to be higher. He stated with using the items in the back, staff came up as impervious at about 83% coverage. Mayor Roe asked if because of perhaps the timing of knowing when coverage be- came impervious whether the City really has the ability to enforce or is that sort of a grandfathered in situation, and pre-existing condition. Mr. Englund stated that was brought to him when the calculation was done about how the City can offer a correction. There was some concern regarding the expan- sion of the driveway that occurred in 2017 that appears to be done not as de- scribed to the City. It was described as a repair to existing and in preparing this item, staff did find pictures that showed the area was previously a turf area along the fence and less of an addition to the driveway so there was added impervious at that time. Mayor Roe asked City Attorney Gaughan what the process is with the Ramsey County citation and what is anticipated moving forward if the Council authorizes this. City Attorney Gaughan stated if the Council authorizes the issuance of a Ramsey County District Criminal Citation it would go out as a summons to the property owner and the property owner would have a first appearance or arraignment ap- pearance followed by one pretrial appearance and then be set on a trial calendar. That could be expected to take nine months to a year to get to that point. There