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The following are reasons Alliance Car Rental would like the staff and Council to consider <br />amending the text to allow the company to remain at this location: <br />1. Alliance Car Rental has been operating at the Little Canada Mall for a period of four <br />years. The company has been a reliable tenant, and has not adversely impacted the business <br />owners in that building nor those in the surrounding area. The owner of the building has been <br />pleased with the company's operations, financial responsibility, and corporate citizenship. <br />2. Although the company is clearly in the car rental business, the actual rental transactions <br />occur at sites away from the Little Canada Mall. The office at 80 Minnesota Avenue is used <br />almost exclusively to accept rental reservations, process billings to the insurance companies, and <br />coordinate the movement of vehicles between renters. <br />. 3. Automobiles are not repaired or serviced at this site. Routine service work, such as oil <br />changes, etc., is done at local service stations. Major service work is basically non - existent <br />because the vehicles are all late -model cars. Any unusual problems with the cars are handled by <br />dealerships because these items would be covered under warranty. <br />4. There are few, if any, vehicles parked at this location. Alliance Car Rental cannot <br />maintain a profitable operation if vehicles are parked and not being rented. There are two issues <br />to be considered regarding the few cars that are occasionally parked at the Little Canada location: <br />a) all of the vehicles are late model cars which are clean and well maintained and b) any parked <br />vehicle is placed at the unused, east side of the Little Canada Mall. Again, "parked cars" is an <br />unacceptable situation because of the negative impact that has on profitability. <br />5. Alliance Car Rental does not sell vehicles at this location. The majority of the <br />company's automobiles are sold through the Minneapolis Auto Auction, which enables the <br />company to quickly liquidate its cars, a very important aspect in maintaining profitability. <br />(see item 4). Occasionally, when a renter purchases one of the rental vehicles, that transaction <br />takes place at the Edina office. <br />6. The Alliance Car Rental office at the Little Canada Mall is located at the rear of the <br />building. (See attached exhibit.) All ingress and egress by company employees is through the <br />back of the building. Again, the company keeps a very low profile, and the general public is not <br />encouraged to come to this office. <br />To summarize, Alliance Car Rental is a nontraditional car rental company. It does no <br />repair work on cars; it does not sell automobiles at this location; it is averse to parking quantities <br />of cars because of the impact on profitability; and it maintains a low profile with the general <br />public. The Little Canada office is used for general administrative work only. It is for these <br />reasons that Alliance Car Rental requests zoning language which would allow it to continue <br />operating at the Little Canada Mall. <br />Page 7 <br />