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truck painting, major repair, body and fender work, upholstering, tire recapping and sales when completely enclosed within a building.” This would allow auto sales as a wholesale operation. Peter Johnson is representing the applicant. Mr. Johnson has stated the property would not be used as a dealership that would be affiliated with a named manufacturer. Monies has also indicated the parts would be sold only as wholesale. A wholesale parts warehouse and associated offices would be located within the east portion of the building and consist of approximately 62,700 s.f Parts sales are primarily sold by phone and are delivered to customers by employees. They do plan to have a call ahead service where customers could pick up their parts at a wholesale parts counter. Exhibit E-2 and E-3, submitted by Mr. Johnson indicate that the proposed “Auto Sales Showroom” at the north end of the building will involve 32,800 s.f. within the building in addition to an outside open sales lot with stalls for 40 cars on display and for demonstration or test drives, all as part of the fleet sales and leasing operation. The operation of the showroom and open sales lot as described by Johnson would meet the definition of a wholesale operation. This outside display area is also considered as outside storage and must be screened, as discussed below. Code Review - Body Shop, Auto Prep, Storage, and Office The body shop and auto prep areas are permitted in the district. The body shop would be in an area of approximately45,000 s.f. completely within the building. Vehicles stored waiting for body repair or for delivery would use the proposed outside storage areas. The auto prep area will occupy 18,300 s.f. of building area. All auto prep will occur inside the building. Monies expects to receive approximately ten incoming loads of new automobiles per month. New automobiles will be unloaded and will be stored outside and delivered to dealerships. Total outgoing vehicles are estimated at 120 per month. The storage area of the building comprises approximately 17,000 s.f. Storage will be for internal operating uses, owner storage, and storage of facility related equipment. The office is incidental to the operation of the facility. Both storage and office would be allowed as “incidental” uses of the building to the operation of the entire facility. Total employees on the site are estimated to be between 30 and 40. Code Review - Outside Storage The areas anticipated for outside storage include the sales area at the north end of the paricing lots and the areas of the east and south parking lots where vehicles would be stored for the body shop and prep work. The Industrial district standards for storage requires all items to be stored within a building; or shall be screened by a fence or wall not less than five feet in height and not less than 50% opaque. Staff would recommend a 6 ’ fence be constructed to fully screen the parking facilities. Such fence should be located with new tree planting outside the fence to break up the general linear appearance of the fence. This is similar to the required fencing that has yet to be installed at the Western Steel property. All vehicles that are delivered to the site that would use the body shop area should be designated to the parking area located at the south end of the building. New vehicles could #02-2795 WJM Properties LLC. - Morries Automotive Croup 2605 West Wayzata Boulevard Page 5 of 6