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NARRATIVE Wally McCarthy Cadillac currently occupies a 6.05(+) acre site at 2325 Prior Avenue North in Roseville. This variance request involves the parking setback on the south side of the dealership (in front of the building) and does not affect the existing building or the current use of the land and/or building. This is not a request to change or amend the current zoning. This property was purchased by Wally McCarthy approximately five years ago and represents the second dealership that Wally McCarthy owns in Roseville. The other being the Oldsmobile dealership at 2775 Highway 35W. Wally McCarthy has been in the automobile sales and service business in the Twin Cities area for approximately forty-seven years. The firm has been an active member of the Roseville business community for the past nine years. The dealership currently has seventy-five to eighty employees at 2325 Prior Ave. North. There are currently twenty-three parking spaces in ffont of the building for visitors and automobile display. The lack of adequate onsite parking has resulted in visitors, as well as administrative and sales staff, parking on Prior Avenue when onsite spaces are not available. Better onsite parking for customers and the display of automobiles is necessary for an effective "customer friendly" operation. In the past, customer focus groups have addressed the lack of available onsite parking. The businesses to the east of the dealership all have their parking and property lines very close to the sidewalk and service road while the twenty-three spaces in ffont of the Cadillac dealership are not only difficult to access, but are approximately 92 feet ffom the north edge of the service road. There is a large right of way south of the south property line which has resulted in the parking being much further ffom the service road than the parking associated with adjacent businesses. Since the area to the south of the existing twenty three parking spaces in front of the building is comprised of lawn area, right of way, service road and ffeeway, it is the request of Wally McCarthy to reconfigure their parking on the south side of their building and extend the parking surface to within 5 ft. of their south property line while still being approximately 52' to 59 '. ftom the north edge of the service road. This would enable the dealership to gain an additional thirty nine spaces. This would also eliminate parking on Prior Avenue and provide adequate on site parking for customers, sales and administrative staff and automobile display. Drainage would continue to flow as it currently does to the south and west. Utilities are in place and will not be affected. Wally McCarthy Cadillac respectfully submits this request for your consideration.