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Request for Conditional Use Permit <br />City of Ramsey, MN <br />Top Ten Center / Multi -Tenant live work commercial, auto repair and sales center. <br />My family has owned Top Ten Center for nearly three decades where we originally founded <br />and operated Fleetwood Collision Center, Top Ten Auto Sales, Top 10 Racing and <br />Fleetwood Services/Sparks Computerized Car Care Centers. Over the many years we <br />eventually sold the individual businesses to other entrepreneurs and continued to provide <br />a great place to operate the businesses that we had originally founded. <br />There have been changes from time to time in the operator of the businesses and we even, <br />for a period in the troubled times, re -opened our auto body repair business of buying and <br />re -building repairable autos, trucks, trailers, RV's and even watercraft when there were no <br />renters to be had! TTC was also the original home of Discount 10 Liquors and then the <br />home of MGM Liquors until the looming prospect of the pending taking of the property for <br />the Highway 10 expansion caused MGM to pull the plug and cease operations! This left the <br />liquor store portion of the property vacant and losing money for several years when the <br />City identified the path of Hwy 10 as going right through the building!! This resulted in the <br />loss of our neighbor Holiday gas station, (purchased by the City), and the absolute <br />unrentable and unsalable circumstances of the property until the path of Hwy 10 was <br />eventually directed away from the middle of our property. <br />Today the path of Highway 10 has been determined to site relatively within its current <br />footprint and our property has been saved from taking allowing us to, for the first time in <br />over 10 years, consider what the future holds and how we can maximize the opportunity <br />and the best use of Top Ten Center permanently! <br />Recognizing that the expansion of Highway 10 to a freeway is both necessary and <br />absolutely in the best interests of the community. We are glad that at long last there is a <br />real plan and a real path forward for the highway. We now need to do the same and plan <br />for the future of our long time family owned property! <br />Currently, and for the past many years, we have had an autobody repair shop as well as five <br />pre -owned auto sales businesses operating at the property including our own company <br />TTC; we also rent to the Hirschfield's Paint and wallpaper as well as the triplex house in <br />front. We propose to reconfigure the 7127 middle building and add an additional four Pre - <br />Owned auto sales dealership offices to make a total of nine dealerships for the property. <br />These dealerships would all have State Statute conforming opportunities for the nine Motor <br />Vehicle Licensed Dealers. Consisting of separate MV Dealer offices each with a private <br />entrance to be used for sales, administration, storage of records as well as parking for 5 <br />vehicles, providing for the parking requirements of the owner, customer and showing <br />inventory within the total of five spaces per Dealer. Customarily these primarily Internet <br />based of auction based Tenants on average use minimal inventory parking on a daily basis. <br />Each and every Tenant Dealer is required to carry a $50,000 performance bond, full <br />business & liability insurance and is required to execute a formal written lease prior to <br />