Welcome George! We also have areas near the largest university (we have seven here) with overlay zoning which has more specific regulations concerning some of the "nuisance" issues raised by student housing, e.g., no parking in the front yard, no "indoor furniture" used outdoors, etc. We already have the obvious noise restrictions in our City Code, etc., and if we have a problem property, we usually have several different code provisions we are able to use to try to encourage the property owner to get his/her tenants in line. Marianne Marianne Landers Banks Assistant City Attorney City of Springfield Law Department 840 Boonville Ave. Springfield, MO 65801 417-864-1123 - office 417-773-3207 - mobile 417-864-1705 - fax mbanks@springfieldmo.gov<mailto:mbanks@springfieldmo.gov> Note: This may be a privileged and confidential communication and attorney-client privileged. 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From: universitycities-bounces@lists.imla.org [mailto:universitycities-bounces@lists.imla.org] On Behalf Of Elias, Abigail Sent: Thursday, September 03, 2009 1:52 PM To: universitycities@lists.imla.org Subject: Re: [Universitycities] [BULK] Hello Welcome, George. I missed your initial post. Your concerns and issues sound similar to Ann Arbor, though illegal housing is less of a problem than noisy parties and drinking. Our zoning code defines a family to include a small group of unrelated individuals, so a group of students can live in a single family home or duplex. However, we've had issues with bedroom size, use of basements without escape windows for bedrooms, renting to more students than are allowed. I haven't heard of any recently, but I am guessing they haven't gone away. When I worked for the City of Detroit I enjoyed the view of your fair city to the south across the Detroit River - and would visit on occasion for aikido and/or good food. 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OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. From: universitycities-bounces@lists.imla.org [mailto:universitycities-bounces@lists.imla.org] On Behalf Of Wilkki, George Sent: Friday, August 14, 2009 8:21 AM To: universitycities@lists.imla.org Subject: [Universitycities] [BULK] Hello Importance: Low Good morning. I am a new member of this group, having joined IMLA in 2004. My name is George Wilkki. I am the City Solicitor (City Attorney) for the City of Windsor, Ontario. We are located immediately across the river from Detroit, Michigan. After being in private practise for 18 years I joined the City as a Legal Counsel in 1997. Our legal department consists of 7 lawyers, a student-at-law and 5 support staff. We handle as much in-house as resources allow, in the areas of real estate, general and personal injury litigation, employment law, by-law prosecutions, contracts, expropriation (condemnation) and advice to City Council and other departments. We are a University town. The University of Windsor has 16,000 students. We also have St. Clair College which is growing rapidly, presently having 6,300 students on 2 campuses. Although there are on-campus residences, many students live in private accomodation off-campus. Single-family homes have been illegally converted into student housing. This presents fire safety problems and disruption of neighbourhoods. I look forward to participating in this IMLA group. George Wilkki City Solicitor, Windsor 519-255-6100, ext. 6424