03-08-07 Planning Comm. Agenda - Laserfiche WebLink

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Enforcement Officer noticed that Ms. Longrie has signed all the documents and that the cost agreement was not submitted. Staff indicated to Ms. Longrie that she is not the property owner and cannot sign the cost agreement and Mr. SedaghaYs signature will be needed on all the paperwork and the cost agreement needs to be completed before the applications can be processed. She indicates Mr. Sedaghat will be into city offices around 8:00 a.m. or early Wednesday morning to sign and complete. Staff told her the paperwork would be accepted if he was into sign the next morning. 12/27/06 City Staff is notified that Valor Enterprises is storing 8 cars at the Sinclair gas station and 2 cars at the Citgo gas station. The property owner has given Mr. Sedaghat 24 hours to remove the cars before towing. The property owner indicates the cars started showing up before Clu•istmas, roughly December 20`". Permission had been grant fora short duration. 12/28/06 Paperwork was mailed back to Valor Enterprises with rejection letter based on incomplete submittal given Mr. Sedaghat did not show up to sign paperwork on the 27". 12/28/06 City Staff finds 3 previous cars from Sinclair have moved to another property in the Industrial Park without their permission. Christian Life Ministries on Lakeshore and Little Canada Road had 2 of the cars from Sinclair moved to their property without permission. Wonderful Muffle Man on Rice Street had 2 cars show up on their property overnight without permission. All of these cars are owned by Valor Enterprises. City staff was notified that Mr. Sedaghat stores cars during the week at the Car Mart property in Vadnais Heights. City staff conducts and inspection and determines that Mr. Sedaghat has at least 5 cars for sale at this location. Citations were issa~ed to Mr. Sedaghat by the Sheriff's Department for parking of unlicensed and inoperable vehicles. Some of the cars were authorized to be towed by the property owners. 12/29/06 Mr. Sedaghat comes into city offices to sign paperwork and submit application for January cycle. Mr. Sedaghat indicated that his attorney never relayed the message to him and he was unaware it was not complete. He authorized his attorney to sign. City staff explained no evidence of power of attorney was presented. Mr. Sedaghat signs paperwork and it will be processed for January meetings. Mr. Sedaghat discusses with staff why are his cars being towed. I-Ie indicates he is trying to get the cars to auto repair locations to be repaired. Mr. Hanson questions how Sinclair, Citgo, Christian Life Ministries are doing any work on his cars. He indicated without head lights he cannot drive the cars at night so he moves them as far as he can each day. He was trying to move the cars from Sinclair to Car X, but it got dark. Mr. Hanson states that he had at least three days to move cars if headlights were the problem. ivfr. Hanson indicated that Valor Enterprises has told staff they at•e no Longer moving cars around, but the cars are just moving two buildings down. Plus, we are finding them at other locations. Mr. Sedaghat indicates he is trying to get the cars fixed. 1/8/07 Administrative Search Warrant executed for zoning and fire code violations. 1/10/07 Diana Longerie requests that the review of Valor Enterprises CUP applications, text amendment, and auto licenses renewal be tabled and reviewed in the February meeting cycle. 1/10/07 City Clerk faxes, emails, and mails a letter back to Ms. Longrie indicating a 60 Day Ruie Waiver will have to be signed in order to table matter. If not, the applications will remain as scheduled. 1/11/07 Property owner consents to the 60 day waiver.