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NORTHWEST ASSOCIATED CONSULTANTS, INC. 4800 Olson Memorial Highway Suite 202, Golden Valley, MN 55422 Telephone: 763.231 .2555 Facsimile: 763.231.2561 planners(Snacplanning.com MEMORANDUM TO: Little Canada Planning Commission FROM: Stephen Grittman DATE: AprW7 2006 RE: Little Canada — Foley CUP for indoor Motor Vehicle Sales FILE NO: 758.09 - 06.09 Background and Analysis Devin Foley has requested a Conditional Use Permit to allow Motor Vehicle Sales in a building in the Ryan Industrial Park at 200 Ryan Drive. The applicant would like to establish an office location for automobile sales, and indicates that he would only occasionally have vehicles on site. Those vehicles would not be for general retail sale, and would be stored inside the building as shown in photos the applicant has submitted with his materials. The State's licensing requirements include a provision that the licensee must be able to identify at least four vehicle display spaces. The applicant will identify indoor locations for these spaces, and is not seeking any outdoor display or storage. The majority of the City's zoning code enforcement issues relating to vehicle sales have been with outdoor storage and display. The indoor storage is subject to a separate type of conditional use permit. In the 1 -1, Light Industrial District, indoor vehicle sales is a use allowed by Conditional Use Permit, subject to general site condition zoning compliance. The outdoor sales and display permit includes a number of specific conditions that have been added to address the concerns raised by that particular use. The applicant has submitted photographs of the subject site. There do not appear to be any compliance concerns with the current site opbuilding, based on those photos. Provided that the site is kept in good condition, the indoor auto sales activities would appear to meet the requirements of the zoning ordinance.