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PLANNING REPORT DATE: 6 April 1988 CASE NUMBER: 1827 APPLICANT• Budget Rent-A-Car LOCATION• West of Walnut Street, North of Burlington Northern Railroad Tracks (see sketch) ACTION REQUESTED: Special Use Permit for Car and Truck Rental PLA1,4ilING CONSIDERATIONS: 1. The overall property, shown shaded in the location sketches, consists of 12.34 acres of which the northerly portion is occupied by existing structures, housing gross common carriers BMAC Transport, Rose Freight Lines, with the office structure occupied by Mar Len Development and Butler Realty. The proposal is to lease an area of land to the Budget Rent-A-Car people of about 45,200 square feet for a period of up to one year for use as a temporary Budget Rent-A-Car facility. The applicants have submitted a letter and a sketch indicating the arrangements under which the proposed use would be developed. 2. This proposal is coupled with a tentative development project by Mark Murlowsky of Belair Builders. That proposal is to redevelop in its entirety the Jim Trapp property at the northwest corner of County Road C-2 and Partridge Road. That property, owned and operated by Mr. Trapp for many years, is occupied by Cleanco. truck washing service, truck service station, a used garbage truck merchant, and various other smaller users in a collection of buildings which have long been an aesthetic concern to the City. Some of you will recall a point about fourteen years ago when Mr. Trapp was issued a Special Use Permit for the gasoline and service facilities expansion to which a number of conditions were attached. Most of these conditions were never accomplished and, as a result, the property has long been somewhat of an eyesore. 3. We have suggested to Mr. Murlowsky that the granting of a temporary permit under the conditions proposed would appear to have very little interest for the City, except if the granting of the permit assures the redevelopment of the Cleanco site in a manner that is a distinct asset to the community. Past experience suggests that the presence of a temporary operation in the City continuing for an extended period of time and constituting a serious substandard development adversely impacts the neighborhood and the City as a whole. Therefore, we have strongly encouraged Mr. Murlowsky to clarify and demonstrate the assurance of the redevelopment of the Jim Trapp property of which the Budget Rent-A-Car operation is proposed to be a permanent part.