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6. The Planning Commission made the following findings of fact: <br />A. The Planning Commission finds the sales allowed on the property as a <br />Permitted Use would be sales associated with a wholesale operation. In the <br />Code under the general heading of'Processing' are a list of types of processes <br />that would be allowed in the district. Processes would include conducting <br />certain manufacturing, fabrication, storage, or wholesaling operations. The 1 <br />district lists “automobile and truck painting, major repair, body and fender <br />work, upholstering, tire recapping and sales when completely enclosed within <br />a building.” This would allow auto sales as a wholesale operation. <br />B. The Orono zoning ordinance does not permit “retail sales” in the I, Industrial <br />zoning district. Retail use of the property for automobile sales in the classic <br />sense, i.e. general customer visits for the purposes of purchasing a vehicle or <br />parts, is not permitted on the property. However, proposed uses such as the <br />body shop, auto processing, and wholesale of ears and parts are permitted <br />uses in the distriet. <br />C. “Auto Sales Showroom” at the north end of the building will involve 32,800 <br />s.f. within the building in addition to an outside open sales lot with stalls for <br />40 cars on display and for demonstration or test drives, all as part of the fleet <br />sales and leasing operation. The operation of the showroom and open sales <br />lot as proposed would meet the definition of a wholesale operation. <br />D. The body shop and auto prep areas are permitted in the district. The body <br />shop would be in an area of approximately 45,000 s.f. completely within the <br />building. Vehicles stored waiting for body repair or for deliver^' would be <br />stored in the outside storage area south of the building. <br />E. The auto prep area will occupy 1 8,300 s.f of building area. All auto prep <br />will occur inside the building, Morries expects to receive approximately ten <br />incoming loads of new automobiles per month. New automobiles will be <br />unloaded and will be stored outside and delivered to dealerships. Total <br />outgoing vehicles are estimated at 120 per month. <br />Page 2 of 10