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Attachment E
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<br />From: suipport@ciiviicpl�uis.com�
<br />Sent: Tuie�sday, ApriI 05, 2011 8:33 PM
<br />To: *RVPIanningCommission
<br />Subject: Online Form Suibm�iittal�: Cone tact Pl�an�n�iin Commission
<br />The following form was submitted via your webs,ite: Contact Planning Commis,s,ion
<br />JMbject:: Pawn S,ho 01, i n g Av e n u t.,
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<br />Addres,s,:: 1,649 Ridgewood Lane S
<br />City:: Roseville
<br />State: : MN
<br />Zip:: 551,1,3
<br />How would you prefer to be contacted? Remember to fill in the corresponding contact
<br />information.: Email
<br />Email Address::
<br />Please Share Your Comment., Question or Concern: I am writing to place of record my opposition
<br />to the request for permit to operate a pawn shop at 2057 S,nelling, Avenue. We have lived
<br />roughly 600 feet from the proposed site for about 1,8 years,. I have read the recommendation
<br />from the Planning Commission and concur with the recommendation for denial and the valid
<br />points, cited. I'd further like to make note of similar cas,es, that have bearing on the one
<br />under cons,ideration.
<br />1. In the cas,e of Beck Vs,. the City of Raleigh NC (ruling February 1,7, 2009), a pawn shop
<br />appealed the denial of permit. The appeal failed and the ruling cited that the city's,
<br />adoption of a "buffer for commercial, neighborhood bus,ines,s, and shopping center" was
<br />consistent with a municipality's, discretion to discharge its le is,lative functions,.
<br />2. In LaGrange Illinois, the city is considering changes, to zoning ordinances, regulating
<br />bus,ines,s, activities, of pawn s,hops, away from central bus,ines,s, district in the wake of an
<br />outcry from down town bus,ines,s, owners, who said a pawn shop will scare away quality shoppers
<br />and reduce property values,. Final disposition of new restrictions, currently has not been
<br />adopted as of this writing but the protests, are shared by residential owners, as well as
<br />bus,ines,s, owners, who see pawn s,hops, and their patrons, as a sign of neighborhood and business
<br />environment deterioration.
<br />3. Most recently in Minnesota in the cas,e of Pawn America MN LLC vs,. the City of St. Louis,
<br />Park (August 26, 2010) , . the plaintiff (Pawn America) appealed and lost a cas,e wherein the
<br />City adopted a restriction of pawn s,hops, locating within 350 feet of a residence (in the
<br />Roseville cas,e, the nearest residence is approximately 1,00 feet., adjacent to the State Farm
<br />agency). It should be noted that in the face of opposition Pawn America immediately entered
<br />into a lease and submitted a signed certificate of occupancy and requested an immediate
<br />issuance of a pawn brokerage licens,e. These actions, demonstrated a willful disregard of
<br />community in which it sought the right to conduct bus,ines,s,.
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