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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes December 15, 2020 Page 5 has lived in the City since 2006 in various capacities, is in her forties, a person of color, and a 1 black woman of African descent. There are not many of them here, but she thought there has 2 been in increase with a Mosque coming in so more Africans who are new Americans, like 3 herself, have entered the City and are coming in more and more. The point she wanted to 4 make is there was a whole space at Walmart vacated that ended up being leveled for building 5 housing for seniors and there are other places that have car washes that are local around here. 6 However, it seems to her that this gentleman, from the way he is speaking, it does not sound 7 like he is going to be bringing a jenky enterprise in to build something that is going to have all 8 of this noise. 9 10 Commissioner Neumann noted another speaker, Mr. Hess, indicated they have a right to enjoy 11 their property, which she does not disagree. She lives on the Ramsey County side and there is 12 not one day that goes by where she is not getting harassed in her own home. She understands 13 that there are things that happen right where they live that they cannot always have it be 14 exactly how you want, but to block something that might potentially benefit the community as 15 a whole and also serve Northeast Minneapolis, because she owned a house on Lincoln Street, 16 it just seems to be the modus operandi of individuals living in St. Anthony who are coddled, 17 nurtured, sheltered, and for whom the decisions are made to benefit them. Commissioner 18 Neumann stated in her opinion there is just a lot of whining that she did not think was 19 necessary. She noted this is her last meeting. She wanted to thank everyone for these last 20 three years, to speak her peace, and represent individuals who are told they do not live here. 21 22 Commissioner Erickson stated his observation that he could not think of a car wash on a 23 development like this with a car wash building and room for two traffic lanes and several 24 parking spots and vacuum stalls. He asked if they were sure this will all fit on a parcel that is 25 less than an acre. The way he sees the diagram, it looks like the cars that go behind the 26 building and are cued up to enter the car wash, if that line got to be long enough, it may block 27 cars exiting the car wash. He asked if that has been considered as well. 28 29 Mr. Grittman indicated staff was comfortable with what the applicants have shown will fit on 30 the site. He thought the stacking was unique and unusual because normally you would not see 31 stacking like this. In this case, it would be unlikely that the stacking lane would back up into 32 the exit and interfere with that because there are so many available stacking spots. 33 34 Commissioner Payne indicated the car wash he frequents the most in St. Anthony is on the 35 block of 38th and Stinson and it appears that the entrance of that car wash is approximately 36 fifty to one hundred feet from the balconies of The Landings multi-family units in that part of 37 town. He wondered if there has been any type of feedback to the City or the car wash owner 38 about issues with noise because it seems that the two businesses would be similar. 39 40 Mr. Grittman indicated he was not aware of anything from the Code Enforcement 41 Department. 42 43 Commissioner Socha indicated she was quite interested in Ms. Flemings comment about the 44 criteria she quoted and finds it unlikely that property values would drop in half. But the 45 concerns being expressed seemed valid about fumes and radio noises and that would have 46 5