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South Fridley Apartments
• 1050, 1030, and 1170 Built in 1964 (1 did not find Building permit paperwork on 1120)
o 1120, 1170, 1050, and 1090 (November 1980 violations)
• April of 1968 the police chief raises concerns to the city council about parking issues
• April 1968 this issue is discussed at city council
o the main resolution was to post 52nd Ave as"No Parking"
• September of 1968 this parking issue is discussed at council again,this time the property owner
is asking for the "No Parking" signs on 52nd Ave to be removed
o Council referred the issue to the police department and the engineering department
o the resolution was to leave the "No Parking" signs up on 52nd Ave
• These departments suggested that the property owner look into expanding his parking facilities
• In October of 1968 the city engineer(after investigating the current parking facilities) made 4
minimum suggestions to resolve the issue
0 26 stalls short
o Striping the spaces
o Parking area on the south portion be curbed
o Present parking stalls should no longer be used for storage, they should be parking only
• The owner complied with curbing and striping the lot
• In May 1973 this parking issue was discussed before the planning commission
o It was determined that when built in 1964 all codes were met
o If it would have been built in 1973 the complex would be 20 stalls short
o There was talk about splitting off a parcel and separating it from the apartments
o The parcel owner(Julkowski) was arguing that the county split the lot but the city
wouldn't
o The chairman questioned this claim
o Important to note that Julkowski was the original owner of the apartment complex and
kept the one parcel of land when he sold the apartments
o Julkowski was questioned about whether he had tried selling his land to the apartment
complex
o He said yes they were not interested
• At a Council meeting in August of 1973, allowing Julkowski to split off the lot was discussed
o The council did not approve the split
o They recommended that Julkowski try selling his lot to the apartment again
• In September of 1980 and again in November of 1980 the environmental officer,Steven J.
Olson, told the management company that tenants were parking off the grass and that either
blacktop must be provided or parking must be discontinued
• July 1981 Steven again told the Nordling's (I'm guessing new owners)that if tenants were
parking on the grass then it needed to be hard surfaced or they needed to stop parking on the
grass
o The Nordlings responded saying that the complex was just sold to Marck Investment Co.
and that they were aware of these issues
• July of 1982 Steven told the new owners,J&L Management,that the parking lot needed to be
maintained because it was full of cracks and pot holes
• May of 1983 Steven notifies J&L Management that the tenants need to stop parking on the
grass or if the area was going to continue being used for parking they must pave it
• Important to note that in the 1980's there were many violations regarding junk vehicles
• In September of 1988 there was a complaint about the parking at the time, the apartments
were being referred to as Skywood but this was corrected to South Fridley on October 1988
o The code enforcement officer at the time made five recommendations to solve parking
issues
o One recommendation was to remove junk cars and another recommendation was to
add more parking to the west of the current lot
o There was also talk about posting the street with no parking signs...this was between
the code enforcement officer an the public works director
• A resident claimed that the property VWof the South Fridley Apartments was city property
• The police department was asked to examine fire lanes and check for vehicles in violation
o They reported that the fire lanes were not adequate for any size fire truck and
suggested that the driveway be posted no parking along both sides
• October 1988 Steven Barge, Planning assistant, informs Mandel that the area to the west needs
to be hard surfaced, or tenants need to stop parking on the grass
• Lyle Mandel responds to Steven Barge in October 1988 and he acknowledges that the tenants
park on the unpaved area to the west, but he claimed they were doing so without his
authorization and he said he would like to expand the parking lot but he does not own land to
do so and that he is unable to acquire more land to do so
• In February of 1989 Steven Barge determined that the city did own the lot to the east of the
complex and that the city should make sure to so a better job of properly maintaining it
• March of 1992 there was a permit for a driveway curb cut
• A land Survey was done in April 2007
o The statements of possible encroachments stated that
■ The parking stalls in the southwest corner encroach onto adjoining property to
west
■ Driveway ingress/egress along east side accessing street crosses property to
east
• In 1964 city code required 64 parking stalls for this apartment complex, in 1968 code required
96 stalls, and today(??) code would require 116 stalls
o Approximately 20-30 stalls could be provided in the lot to the west