tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143409168229764050.post7934611239022052774..comments2023-10-09T11:28:14.030-05:00Comments on The Adventures of Johnny Northside: Let's Put Some Limits on Provisional Rental LicensesJohnny Northsidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03694273579383113753noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143409168229764050.post-22221450536447292122010-01-30T17:38:19.590-06:002010-01-30T17:38:19.590-06:00If you want the gremlins in your head to start dan...If you want the gremlins in your head to start dancing, take a look at the city's rental license application and then randomly look up any other license application, such as a grocery store license, a liquor license or (this is great) a juke box license. Seriously. The amount of inforation required to obtain a juke box license in this city is more rigorous than the rental license application. <br /><br />We need more push from residents on this one than just writing up a proposal. What I have been told by my neighborhood association is that the city ordinance needs to be changed if anything relating to rental licenses is going to get changed. So, people, start agitating for changes in the ordinances pertaining to rental licenses. This is one issue that is about 10 years overdue.<br /><br />AKLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143409168229764050.post-45269175108605509072010-01-30T10:00:17.164-06:002010-01-30T10:00:17.164-06:00I think the chair is CM Elizabeth Glidden of the 8...I think the chair is CM Elizabeth Glidden of the 8th ward.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143409168229764050.post-20132199595120920242010-01-30T05:17:57.443-06:002010-01-30T05:17:57.443-06:00Slightly off topic....
Our block club's prob...Slightly off topic.... <br /><br />Our block club's problems were not centered around multiple licenses to one owner, but nevertheless, they caused us a lot of grief. It may be the case where the flaws we saw with the system were fixed, but since you brought this topic up, here are a couple of other considerations you may want to take into account. <br /><br />First, there needs to be a better system for identifying rental properties with no provisional license in the first place and there needs to be meaningful penalties when these properties are identified. Rental properties are businesses and I find it difficult to believe the owners of these properties do not realize they have to have a license to operate a business in the City of Mpls. <br /><br />All four of the properties I identified had outstanding inspection orders, had been operating as rental properties for over a year to several years and yet no one at the city seemed aware they were rental properties in need of a rental license in the first place. Once I reported them as such, it appeared the owners simply paid the license fee and were granted their provisional license. The licensing fee may have been doubled (I was unclear about that), but that still seems like an insignificant slap on the wrist for operating a business with no license. <br /><br />All of these properties were ongoing problem properties and had generated a significant number of 911 calls while operating without a rental license. It would seem to make sense to take into account the documented history of a property before a provisional license is<br />granted. In other words, why grant a rental license to a property you already know is a problem property? I realize it's more work up-front for inspections, but think of how much work it takes to get a rental license revoked.Kevinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9143409168229764050.post-84463619705401763222010-01-29T17:56:11.898-06:002010-01-29T17:56:11.898-06:00Hawkman, you should email your thoughts and propos...Hawkman, you should email your thoughts and proposals around this subject to the councilmembers on the regulatory services committee. <br /><br />It's too important to just let this sit here for them to find on their own. <br /><br />Don is on the committee still, althought not chair anymore. <br /><br />I forget who is chair now. Diane?MeganG.noreply@blogger.com