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R. STEPHEN RUTHERFO
DATE: August 2, 1999
TO: File, Fred Burns, Shari Stiles
RE: Idaho Youth Ranch Code Violation
Meridian City Attorney's Office
200 E. Carlton Ave. Ste. 31
P.O. Box 1150
Meridian, Idaho 83680
(208) 288-2499
Today was do or die day for the folks down at the IYR Thrift Store to comply with
our request to remove the vehicles they had for sale from the lot on E. ls` Street. I
went by there today and the vehicles are removed.
At this time I am closing this file. If the need should arise again to harass these folks
into compliance, I will have this information for reference.
Call me or stop by if you have questions.
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MEMORANDUM
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LAW OFFICE OF
NIICHAEL STOY
515 West Hays Street
Boise, Id 83702
208-433-8000
May 18, 1999
Fred Burns
Code Enforcement Officer
City of Meridian
201 East Idaho Street
Meridian, Idaho 83642
Deaz Mr. Burns:
I represent the Idaho Youth Ranch and am responding to your Notice of Violation, served
upon the manager of our thrift store located at 231 E. 1st Street, Meridian, Idaho. The notice
states that we have "vehicles that aze posted for sale on the lot at 100 E.King Street."
We certainly appreciate the City of Meridian's zoning determination to keep the Old
Town section free of automobile sales lots and have no desire to violate the zoning requirements
of even to seek any change in them. The Idaho Youth Ranch runs a thrift store and does not
intend to operate an automobile sales lot. It is true that people occasionally donate vehicles that
we must temporarily store and dispose of through sales or other means. We park some of these
cars in our pazking lot 100 E. King Street.
After your letter of April 22, 1999, advising us of the zoning requirements, we removed
any indication that the vehicles were for sale. The vehicles, of course, remain for sale but there is
no signage or any other reason for anyone to believe that a sales lot exists there.
The Meridian Ordinance's and Code's do not contain a definition of an automobile sales
lot. I suggest, though, that it would have to be able to be identified as such by a reasonable
person. The lot at the Idaho Youth Ranch is only a pazking lot and only looks like one.
Please drive by our location and see if it appears to be more than a parking lot. We
believe that we are in compliance, now. If you still have problems please specifically articulate
them and advise me. We wish to remain a good neighbor and respected business in Meridian.
Sincerely,
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Michael Stoy
cc: Meridian Prosecuting Attorney