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Assistant Community Development Director Frolik advised several factors must be considered regarding this request. First, while the site of the RVs and travel trailers is more secluded than in past instances, the property is zoned R.-1 Residential. Off-street parking regulations pertaining to ureter vehicles and/or equipment on residentially zoned parcels prohibit parking them on a parcel nnless they arc owned or leased by a person residing on the properly or owned or leased by the employer of a person residing on the property. Neither of which is occurring with this request. Ms. f:rolik stated secondly, interim use perm/ts, by definition, are limited to a maximum runoff'amc of five years. While this is the first interim use~p~rmir request by RV World. Inc., as well as t}~c first request for this particular property, the inter'ira ~e permits issued to B & A C) lindcr were, ['or ali intents and purposes, obtained-!£gr RV.::W.,gr!d. -~This raises the question of lmw the five year time limit is applied, and whethe:r'it'is only:applicable to au applicant to the su >j ecl prope ty of a request" or fbr the intended'i~se of a pe~it(P .:- i~ ~.i(i ,, Assistant Community Development Director Frdlik i~iicat~ staff has'~ee~"af~pfing to work with sevcral o f the RV dealerships along Highway 10 to a~ddress the issue of ~rpln's merchandise bcim~ displayed and/or stored on unimproved surfaqeg..The}:glpal is to get the properties to comply with current zoning regulations that require merch/~hdise to:?e stored on an improved surface with curbing. Staff believes that a.:reqtie~t' of this .*ype'moy:bg'.ireasonable if tke intent were to provide~ the applicant additional tim~ to m~tke certain on-site {m'~Srovements necessary to comply with City C0de. However, thii is the third/tt~erapt ar a, temporary fix without any appare tr pl~t is fbr needed improvements 0'r~expas-~ii0~ o)R9 7~Vorlc~'s existing site. Ms. Fro ik advised il" the Plaanin~ Cmumission is 1hclined to, recommend approval of this request, Staff would encourage a lesser timefi'ame than the five year term roqttested. C~t~zcn Input - -: Cory Moiner, General Mann,.er of'RV World_ stated this is a temporary fix until RV World is able to secure a bigger lot. which is getrirtg harder and harder to do in this area. At this time they need a location to s~ore surplus merchandise;. He thought he did a good job of finding the most sechtded so:et in Ramsey to hide the trailgt:s;'b6t apparently there Was someone that didn't like it. 'File permit was applied ib~: after the ~het.' 'From his understanding the storage location is zoned residential. Zoning Coordinator Chris Anderson also informed him there is no longer agricultm'al zomng in Ramsey.' This piece of land where RV World is storing their smplus merchamlisc is on a 160 ace piece that is owned by Joe Nathe, in which the storage consumes a little ~l>Ot o'n Mr. Nathc's land; The closest two houses to the east are over ¼ mile away, and the trailers are blocked by Mr. Nathe's areenhouse. The only road the trailers can be seen from is Riverdale Boulevard, and you need re look past everyone else's inventm.'y and through a row of trees to see thc trailers. Mr. Moiner stated RV World has outgrown their facility. They support 24 employees. If they are not able to utilize this storag~ area until they are able to expand they will need to cut inventory in half, cut staff in half, and will not be able to service the general public as well as they have been. RV World is in the process of t~ing to find a spot to relocate. Chairpers{m Nixt noted the staff summary indicates that this site is used for storage and display. fie asked il'sales are being done at this site. Plannitlg Comraission/May 4, 2006 Page 7 of 15 -167-