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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMay 9, 2006 Minutes Meridian City Council May 9, 2006 Page 18 of 53 Borton: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Borton. Borton: Do we need to set a date for that or-- De Weerd: Mr. Berg will get it set up. Berg: Madam Mayor, I will set up the hearing date as soon as I can. I know our schedule in June is unique, but we will get it on the agenda as fast as we can. Borton: Follow up, Mayor? De Weerd: Yes. Borton: Just wanted to make sure to the extent the applicant has something to provide, that there is sufficient time to get that. Berg: Sure. Thank you, Councilman Borton. And I will get with the applicant, because she did say something about working with the staff on a couple issues before it is presented. So, we will get with them about the hearing date. Borton: Okay. Berg: Thank you. Item 9: Continued from May 2, 2006: Appeal Hearing for Order to Remove Junk Vehicle by Steven Cady with Meridian Cherry Lane Mobile Home Park: De Weerd: Okay. Yeah. Because June is short and we want to make sure that all three Council members are available. Okay. Okay. Item No.9 also is continued from May 2nd and I will ask Mr. Venneman to introduce this. Venneman: Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, last week if you recall there was a hearing on the issue of the status of Mr. Steven Cady's property that he manages on Cherry Lane. At that time, at the time of that hearing, there were nine items of concern that still remained on that property and the good news is that in this last week Mr. Cady has contacted code enforcement twice in the last week and he has removed all but two remaining issues. Those issues involve a brown pickup truck that has expired plates going back to 2001 and, then, he has a U-Haul and those plates expired a year ago. He has removed some rubbish that was on the property from last week and a Berretta that had a flat tire and so that's where we stand right now. Technically, we'd have to say that he remains in violation. He provided me the name of the owner of the U-Haul and the pickup. I have had a conversation with him. His name is Richard Hammond. And he Meridian City CounCil May 9, 2006 Page 19 of 53 states that tomorrow he will properly license the U-Haul and remove the pickup. And that's where we stand right now. De Weerd: Okay. Council, any questions? Rountree: Madam Mayor? De Weerd: Mr. Rountree. Rountree: Is there a recommendation? Do we proceed with enforcement action or -- Venneman Madam Mayor, if -- Madam Mayor, Members of the Council, I guess I would recommend two things. I don't know if Mr. Cady has a response to Mr. Venneman's statement about the condition of the property. What I would recommend -- as Mr. Venneman said, today there is still an ongoing violation. It appears that may cease shortly. What we can do is prepare some Findings based on the information, I think, as I stated last week. If the Council's findings are that there was adequate information to give notice, which is what the ordinance requires, that there was adequate accumulation of junk property and vehicles on a private property, to give notice that a hearing was held, that the information that you have received meets this -- your standard of whether or not it qualifies as junk property and that there is a directive to remove that property, that all the vehicles have to be registered, no other property can be in this location. Some of the things we discussed last week and that we prepare some Findings and Conclusions and an order for your next meeting. You can, then, get -- before you approve those get a final update from Mr. Venneman and there would be a continuing order obligating Mr. Cady to keep property in that condition as a requirement of this Council, that would probably be your best bet under our ordinance as to going forward. And, then, Mr. Cady can come next week if he wishes, Mr. Venneman can come back and tell you, yeah, the last few things are done, so we are not taking action of requiring the removal or enforcing a removal action, which is the next step in ordinance to do, because it's been accomplished. But, again, it sounds like there is still an ongoing violation that might get done this week, I guess. Borton: Second. Berg: No. You're so moved. Nary: If you want to do that. That's totally up to you. De Weerd: Okay. Council, any further questions? Do I have a motion? Would you like to hear from Mr. Cady? What would your preference be? Mr. Cady, do you have any comment? If you have comment you need to use the mike, please. State your name. Cady: Steven Cady. We'd like to take as little time as possible of yours. We thank you. We are trying to get this resolved and, hopefully, tomorrow it will be. So, I would move his motion along.