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MEMORANDUM
TO: Todd Gerhardt, City Manger
FROM: Bob Generous, Senior Planner
DATE: November 24, 2003
SUB J:
Adoption of Ordinance, Chapter 8, Chanhassen City Code, Cemeteries;
Approval of Summary Ordinance for Publication Purposes
ACTION REQUIRED
A simple majority vote of City Council members present is required to adopt the
amendment; however, a 4/5ths vote is required for approval of the summary ordinance
for publication purposes.
BACKGROUND
Over the past two years, the city has been reviewing proposed changes to City Code.
Our overall intent is to try to make the code easier to understand and use by addressing
problems, overlapping code requirements, clarifying ordinance language, procedures or
processes, and consolidation. The proposed changes to Chapter 8 have been reviewed
previously by the Chanhassen Planning Commission and City Council.
SUMMARY
This chapter deals with the Pioneer Cemetery on Galpin Boulevard. Staff is proposing
changes to the code to clarify city operations and requirements. The city maintains the
cemetery through the Parks and Recreation park maintenance program which is paid
through the general fund, since the fees paid for the grave sites are not sufficient to
meet maintenance obligations. The amendment specifies that only one marker is
permitted per grave and that graves are limited to two people.
Staff believes that these changes are primarily administrative, rather than substantive, in
nature and is recommending approval of the amendment.
RECOMMENDATION
Staff is recommending that the City Council adopt the attached ordinance for Chapter 8
of the Chanhassen City Code; and approve the summary ordinance for publication
purposes.
ATTACHMENT
1. Ordinance Amending Chapter 8, Chanhassen City Code
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CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 8
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE, CEMETERIES
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. Section 8-19 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Maintenance funds.
All income received by the city for grave or lot purchase price shall be receipted to the
General Fund for the purpose of defraying the cost of caring for, maintaining and
improving the cemetery lots; expansion; or other cemetery purposes as determined by the
city council.
Section 2. The City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended by adding
a section to be numbered 8-21 (f), which shall read as follows:
Only one monument or marker shall be allowed per grave.
Section 3. Section 8-23 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Persons engaging in placing monuments and markers shall provide adequate planking to
protect turf and shall remove materials, equipment and refuse immediately upon
completion of work. The lot owner, his heirs, successors or assigns are responsible for
any failure to abide by this section and shall pay for any and all charges or damages
resulting. The lot owner, his heirs, successors or assigns are also responsible for any and
all damage resulting from injury or damage to the cemetery or other lots during the
excavation of the grave site or recovering thereof. Contractors and others engaged in
such work must notify the city before beginning the same. All work in the cemetery, of
whatever kind, must be carried on subject to the direction and control of the city. No
monument or marker shall be placed in the cemetery until authorization has been issued
by the city.
Section 4. Section 8-24 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
Above ground vaults and mausoleums are not permitted.
Section 6. The City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended by adding
a section to be numbered 8-27, which shall read as follows:
Graves.
Each grave in the cemetery may contain the remains of up to two people, either
one casket and one cremation urn, or two cremation urns. However, only one monument
or marker will be allowed per grave.
Section 7. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and
publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 24th day of November, 2003, by the City Council
of the City of Chanhassen, Minnesota
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on .)
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. __, AN ORDINANCE
AMENDING CHAPTER 8 OF THE CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
CEMETERIES.
The purpose of this code amendment is to clarify that funds from the sale of the plots
shall be included in the city's general fund, state only one marker is permitted per grave,
prohibit above ground vaults and mausoleums, and limited graves to two people.
A printed copy of Ordinance No. __ is available for inspection by any person
during regular office hours at the office of the City Manager/Clerk.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 24th day of
November 2003, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen.
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
BY:
Thomas A. Furlong, Mayor
AND
Todd Gerhardt, City Manager/Clerk
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on ).