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MINUTES OF THE <br />ORONO PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING <br />Monday, June 17,2002 <br />6:30 o*clock p.m. <br />Fritzler inquired where trade*ins would be staged. <br />Mr. Johnson stated that the body shop cars would be staged in the fenced in area. <br />(#02-2795 >VJM PROPERTIES. Continued) <br />Bellouts reminded the Commission that if 120 cars are coming in, and another 120 are going out, along <br />with the body shop, it seemed to her to be a more intense use than they had assumed. <br />Bremer stated that the numbers of cars on site didn’t concern her, due to the fact that the facility was <br />built to hold that many cars, cars for the employees coming and going twice daily. These cars will not be <br />coming and going with that frequency. With regard to the body shop, it is an allowed use which she had <br />no issue with either. <br />Bellows repeated that she could not support a retail trade and asked for the definition of that term. <br />Gaffron distributed a series of definitions, which defined retail trade as “establishments engaged in <br />selling goods or merchandise to the general public for personal or household consumption and rendering <br />services incidental to the sale of such goods”. In addition to the hand-out, Gaffron stated that, if the <br />Commissioners were concerned over the traffic and noise level, this is the middle of an industrial area. <br />He added that a mere dozen transports per month is low in comparison to other trades and reminded <br />everyone that far less traffic is being proposed than was there before. To Gaffron. the remaining issue <br />the Commission seemed to be wrangling with was whether the general public might come in off the street <br />to buy a car or part. <br />Rahn stated that as a conditional use, the Commission could monitor the operation. <br />Smith suggested adding an opportunity to revisit the conditional use after an amount of time if what was <br />pictured today is vastly different six months from now. <br />Bremer reiterated that the parking lot was built to adequately hold the proposed number of cars sitting <br />PAGE 34 OF 42 <br />1 <br />!