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May 28, 1970 <br />`TO: Village of Falcon Heights <br />FROM: Midwest Planning and Research, Inc. <br />SUBJECT: Request for conditional use permit for car wash facility at the <br />southwest corner of the intersection of Hamline and Larpenteur <br />Avenues. <br />A review of the plot plan submitted to our office by Mr. Peter H. Seed of <br />Briggs and Morgan, prepared by Northwest Design, Inc. and dated 6-1-68 has been <br />reviewed relative to adjacent land use development, zoning, and street patterns. <br />As you are well aware of at the present time, the site in question is utilized <br />for a service station. The site is zoned in a proper classification to facilitate <br />the use of the property for a service station. Adjacent land uses, particularly <br />to the south and west of the site are presently zoned R-1 c, single family <br />res'sdential development, and developed for such purposes. Due to the intensification <br />of the land use on the proposed site by the inclusion of a single bay automatic <br />car washing facility and furthermore relating such intensification of use to <br />existing traffic patterns within the immediate vicinity of the site, it is our <br />conclusion that the granting of a conditional use permit for the car wash on <br />this site would not be a reasonable course of action. <br />Development of the car wash in conjunction with the service station on this <br />site would create additional traffic problems at the intersection of Hamline <br />and Larpenteur Avenues. The only possible solution to this traffic problem <br />would be the closing of the driveway entrance onto the site at the far north- <br />east corner of the property on Hamline Avenue. Furthermore, denial of the <br />conditional use permit would not create the situation of denial of substantial <br />right and property since there is presently existing on the site a valid and <br />justified use in terms of the zoning district provisions. <br />JBD <br />