10-09-2003 Planning Comm. Agenda

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of Little Cd nt~i~°oIt ~;~~`I ~d(~Q~ Michael 1. Fahey m C(JliNCII, lim LaValle \4atc.Anderso~~ C0~1~1UIVIN PRIDE Rid: A4oncoar 195 - 200 13i1I 13leseaer 515 Little Canada Road, Little Canada, DIN 55117-'1600 (651) 766-4039 / PA%: (65'1) 766-4G48 Alli1dIl~~LSTI~CI~OR wmw.ci.litde-canada.mn.us 1oc112. bIanson June 25, 2003 Valor Enterprises Attn: Fred 3165 Spruce Street Little Canada, MN 55117 RE: CUP Compliance Dear Fred: I wanted to send a letter to you recapping our meeting yesterday and the terms both parties agreed to. In the meeting it was discussed how your business operates. You indicated you do arrtobody work, car repairs, and auto sales. For auto repairs, you typically use one car to repair several cars. That one car is stored on your lot for roughly 90 days. At the end of the 90 days, then that car is scrapped and removed from your lot. You were told, that car parts and clips were not approved as part of your outdoor storage and needed to be stored inside. You requested to build a shed in your rear lot because you did not have adequate storage in your existing building. Joel told you that you could amend your CUP to have a shed on the lot and pull the appropriate permits. The shed would need to meet City needs for inside storage. Also, in the meeting you indicated you had roughly 100 cars stored on the lot. That 100 cars included cars for sale or repairables. You were told as part of your CUP you needed to bring your car storage down to 50 cars. The current CUP allows for up to 30 cars for sales and storage of 20. It was agreed that in 30 days you will bring the total number of cars on the site down to 75. Also in that 30 days, you agreed to also remove all the tires, scrap parts, junk and debris not approved in the CUP. At the end of 30 days, all parties will meet again to discuss how to continue to bring your lot into compliance. You expressed that you did want to bring your lot into compliance and possibly seek an amendment to your CUP. Joel stressed to you that the City is willing to work with you, but if you do not continue to bring your lot into compliance we will take enforcement action. I will also be mailing you in the next week, your renewal auto repair and auto sales license. I am only issuing a temporary license at this time to ensure compliance. I will issue the licenses good through August 1, 2003. If at that time you are still working to bring your lot into compliance we will discuss the next steps for license renewal.