INFORMATION #4 04-16-2007
MEMORANDUM
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FROM:
Mayor and City Council __
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Scott Clark, Community Development Director -'
DATE: April 13, 2007
SUBJECT:
Inspection at Elk Ridge Estates -
11 755 191st Yz Avenue, Elk River
1bis memorandum is sent as a response to a public complaint issued for the property known
as Elk Ridge Estates, 11755 191" Y2 Avenue. Allegations were made that this property has
severe property deterioration and major crime issues that are occurring at the property. In
order to address this complaint most comprehensively, I reviewed this with Fire Chief Bruce
West (the Fire Department is in charge of rental inspections), Chief of Police Jeff Beahen
regarding crime incidents, and Building Official Bob Ruprecht, regarding any potential
public nuisance violations.
In our review it was found that this property was recently reviewed as part of the City's
annual rental inspection process on March 9, 2007. The inspection report illustrates that
there are no major issues associated with the building and all of the correction issues are
relatively minor in nature and essentially illustrate only typical wear and tear of the building.
The major issue that does need to be repaired on the property is the general drive of the
parking lot which has failure issues and the owner has submitted a letter to the Fire
Department, stating that the repairs will be made on or before July 1, 2007.
On Friday, April 13, 2007, Fire Marshall Clifford Anderson, Fire Prevention Specialist Jeff
Smith, Bob Ruprecht and I walked the common areas of this apartment complex and after
our review, Smith was to follow-up on the previous correction notices. The overall
apartment complex appeared clean and maintained, and the best summary is to state that it is
"average" in upkeep and does not match with the type of conditions that were reported in
the complaint.
The Chief of Police stated that after reviewing the crime incident reports, this did not match
with the complainant's concern of "drug use". The Chief did say that this complex is not
part of the City's Crime Free Multi-Housing Association and if they were, many of the
scattered incidences could be resolved. The goal of the Police Department will be to
continuously work to bring the owner of this property into the association.
The end result is that 1) no justification for the complaints exists, 2) through our rental
inspection program we will monitor the property in a regular fashion, including the
rebuilding of the parking driveway.
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