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Regular City Council Meeting Monday, September 9, 2019 Page 9 he has to go back every day for four days. The idea is once it is observed, on the first day staff provides the notice and the offender gets more than four days to correct it anyways. The Building Official felt it was unnecessary busy work to take enforcement action. City Attorney Gaughan indicated he spoke with Mr. Englund about this as well and on page seven of the packet, lines 303-304, with reference to the four-day re- quirement, the problem that arises is the way staff enforces this code. There is quite a bit of due process allowed for a residence. A lot of posting, noticing, and return visits and in doing so, the four-day requirements becomes obsolete. What has been done is all of the posting steps staff goes through is in accordance with the Community Development Department's policies. The wording has been mod- ified to following the department policies. This is a cleaner way for staff to do the businesses needed while also enforcing the code. Councilmember Etten thought Mr. Englund and staff had shown a great ability to adjust to the needs of residents and giving lots of time in general. But when it comes to being able to take action, some of these little pieces are in the way of ac- tually finally taking action. He would not want to add back in things that would slow down the process. Councilmember Willmus was in favor of adding the four days back in because there are certain scenarios that come up that are good and valid reasons that per- haps some of these things happen. City Attorney Gaughan indicated the section of code where the four days have been stricken is for storage in the front yard or street facing side yard as opposed to the four-day provision on the street. He thought there was a distinction when talking about public nuisances, and having an item that is licensed on a street is less an immediate public nuisance than something that is sitting in the yard and something that might also play a role of how the two are being treated differently. Councilmember Etten asked if language from the original Council packet, page seven, lines 303-304, would need to be included in a motion to support this. Mayor Roe thought that was the direction from the City Attorney. He noted spe- cifically on the four-day items, including storage in the front or unscreened side yard of corner lot, trailers, boats or watercraft in excess of twenty feet, vehicles for sale, vehicles in inoperable condition, recreational vehicles. There is a second one related to vehicle parking which gets into having to be on an improved sur- face. He asked if the Council would like the four days to be added back in. Councilmember Willmus indicated he would like to have the four days put back in.