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MINUTES CITY COUNCIL APRIL 25, 2007 issued as noted in the timeline. The Administrator also pointed out that on October 10, 2006, Mr. Sedaghat came to City offices to discuss reapplying for new CUPs. On October 11, 2006, Mr. Sedaghat comes to the City Council meeting to ask the Council to reconsider their revocation and allow him additional time to bring the property into compliance. The Council declines to reconsider its September 27`x' actions. On October 27, 2006, Diana Longrie, attorney representing Valor Enterprises, calls to request a meeting with City staff to discuss working out an exit strategy that is acceptable to the City or alternately some other amenable solution that works out well for the City. A meeting was held on November 8, 2006 in which Ms. Longrie expressed Valor's intention to reapply for the previous CUPS and licenses in the December planning cycle. They didn't meet that deadline as the site still did not comply with the now revoked CUPS. The City Administrator outlined additional meetings and contacts that continued throughout November and December of 2006. On December 26, 2006, Ms. Longrie submitted the applications for CUPS, Text Amendments, and Licenses before the Council for considered this evening. The Administrator continued his review of the Valor Timeline, which included requests by the City to Valor Enterprises and Ms. Longrie for completion of the application packet, additional code enforcement, vehicle storage violations by Valor on other properties within the City and surrounding cities, additional citations issued, execution of an Administration Search Warrant for zoning and fire code violations, requests by Valor Enterprise to table consideration of their pending CUP and license applications, posting of the Valor building as unsafe for occupancy, the City being served with Summons and Complaint by Larkin Hoffman, judge denies Valor's motion for Temporary Restraining Order, the hazardous conditions within the corrective order were corrected and the red tags removed from the building. The City Administrator then reviewed in detail his and the Code Enforcement Officer's report dated April 12, 2007 which outlined additional issues at the Valor Enterprise property since the revocation of the CUPS and non-renewal of licenses in September of 2006. Some of the issues outlined in that report include the numerous cars that Valor illegally stored on other properties, retail sales transactions conducted by Valor from his Little Canada site without the proper licensing, an employee of Valor's living at the property, at the last six site inspections there were new cars being stored inside the building, Valor's wholesale license from his Dayton, MN office was revoked by the State so Valor has no vehicle sales licenses at this point. The report also noted that after Valor corrected hazardous conditions on the property, some of those hazardous conditions are reoccurred. There is also evidence of vehicle repair being done on the property without a license. The Sheriffs Department recovered a metal VIN tab from a stolen vehicle from Fred Sedaghat's pocket, and the stolen vehicle was subsequently recovered from the Valor property. 16