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IYA1 WELSH <br />651,665.5404 <br />FAX 352.842.7663 <br />URL www.welsheo.com <br />COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES, WORLDWIDE <br />September 21, 2004 <br />Mr. Jeff Smyser <br />City Planner <br />City of Lino Lakes <br />600 Town Center Parkway <br />Lino Lakes, MN 55014 <br />Dear Jeff, <br />A Welsh Company <br />401 North Robert Street <br />St Paul, MN 55101 <br />I am writing this letter on behalf of Mr. Robert Salmen, owner of the land and building at <br />7309 Lake Drive in Lino Lakes, and Mr. Bruce Hanson, owner of Auto Brokers, Inc., <br />presently located at 2851 84th Lane NE in Blaine, Minnesota. Mr. Hanson has recently <br />made an offer to purchase the land and building at 7309 Lake Drive. Mr. Hanson's <br />company, Auto Brokers, Inc. is a wholesale auto - brokerage company that buys and sells <br />cars, trucks and recreational vehicles, mostly from Southern states, and re -sells them to <br />larger auto dealers in the Twin Cities. We believe that this use is allowed under Lino <br />Lakes' Light Industrial District Zoning Ordinance(Section 8, Subd. 1, Section G <br />Permitted Uses, 15. Wholesale businesses and offices) because the property will not be <br />used as an outdoor sales lot, or a traditional used car lot in any way, as it is a wholesale <br />business. Typical day to day uses Auto Brokers will have on the property are the <br />following: <br />• 93 % -96% of Auto Brokers sales are wholesale, to large local auto dealerships <br />• Only 4 % -7% of Auto Brokers sales are to retail customers, who generally find the <br />company through the internet <br />• No walk in's retail sales or customers are allowed...All sales are made by <br />appointment only, as the property and offices are not always staffed on an continual <br />hourly basis <br />• No retail sales will be done on the front parking lot, no autos for sale in the front <br />parking lot, no signs other than the monument sign, no flags, no neon lights. The <br />only cars in the front parking lot will be for employee parking <br />• Storage of vehicles in the warehouse areas and outdoors in the fenced and screened <br />yard, before the vehicles are shipped, cleaned or sent for repairs <br />• Office activities of sales people <br />• Approximately 10 cars a day will drive in and out of the storage yard, and 1 -2 times <br />per month, a truck load of cars may be unloaded on site. <br />Also, please see the company website at www.autobrokersinc.com. <br />In Over 340 Markets Worldwide: NA America N41 Pacific NAl Canada NAI Europe NAI Latin Americo and the Caribbean <br />