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Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution to Uphold the Planning Board Decision to Terminate the Use Permit for Automobile Repair at 1200 Park Street 60 Days After Final Action by the City Council. (Community Development 481005)
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To: Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
From: Jill Keimach, City Manager
Re: Public Hearing to Consider Adoption of Resolution to Uphold the Planning Board Decision to Terminate the Use Permit for Automobile Repair at 1200 Park Street 60 Days After Final Action by the City Council
BACKGROUND
Over documented objections from residents living near 1200 Park Street-including a concern about the impact the use would have on parking in the neighborhood--the Planning Board, in March 1979, conditionally approved a use permit for an automobile tire repair services business on the property located at 1200 Park Street. See Exhibit 1 ("Ex. 1") at pps. 007-008. In an effort to address these concerns, the Planning Board at that time limited the term of the use permit to five years and imposed conditions requiring all automobiles serviced at the site be confined to the property itself, that parking of cars on the site be limited, that all work on the cars occur within the building, and that no cars be parked overnight on the property. Planning Board Resolution No. 1010 [Ex. 1, pps. 012-013.]
In 1982 a franchisee of Big O Tires became the operator of the business and applied for a use permit to operate at the Park Street location. As part of the application process, planning staff sent out notices to area residents, who then submitted letters objecting to the City's granting a use permit for the business citing, for example, the parking problems in the neighborhood that the business had created and may continue to create. Ex. 1, pps. 014-028. The City determined, however, that the use permit issued in 1979 was still valid. Planning staff sent a letter to the operator summarizing discussions between staff and ...
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