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It is 6:00. So we are going to call the City of Ham Lake Planning Commission meeting for Monday, August 24th, 2026 to order. And we’re going to start the Pledge of Allegiance. And allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. Relatively brief agenda again tonight. Um, to start things off, we will look back at the meeting minutes from the July 27th meeting. Uh, any of the commissioners have any, uh, modifications, addition, subtractions, spelling, corrections, grammar? Notes. Seeing none. Hearing none. I would accept a motion.

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I’ll make a motion to approve as written. We have a motion. Second, we have a motion a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye, aye. Those opposed meeting minutes carry forward as presented in the packet tonight.

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Uh, one item of new business tonight, uh, also happens to be a public hearing. Um, it’s, uh, are, uh, Kennedy’s requesting a conditional use permit to operate PK auto body, a light auto repair shop at one three 408 highway 65 northeast. Uh, unit 110. Uh, if you’d like to come up and you can just give us a brief description of your application here tonight.

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Um, so the all the folks listening at home can hear it. Um, we don’t have anybody in the audience tonight, or at least not yet. But, uh. I just use my phone because I’m still learning English. And sometimes it’s really hard to. Okay. Uh, I, I do, um, light up the body repair, uh, in my shop.

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Um, pretty simple. It’s, um, I replace, uh, damaged parts from vehicle. Uh, and, uh, body panels. Uh, I do do not painting or. Something like this. And, uh, I’m the only one person who works at my shop. Uh. All repairs are down inside the building. And, um.

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I don’t store a large number of vehicles outside. Just, uh, two parking spots on enclosed parking. Okay, great. Commissioners, questions for the applicant. Did you say you don’t paint? No, I don’t. There’s definitely. No paint. Booth. Unless you do cans. Okay. Uh, you’re free to take a seat. We’ll call you back up if necessary. But, uh. Thank you.

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Thank you for the brief description, I appreciate that. Um, that was available to us in our packet as well, but, um, not everyone who may be listening at home sees the packet, so, um, I’m assuming you had an inspection out there? Yes. Anything to note from the inspection? Well, that was a yes or no question. Okay.

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Um, no. I went to the cops. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. Yes or no? Be brief. Uh, I met, uh, Petrie on Saturday, and we walked through his area. It was kind of hard for me to find. Thank God he was there because he came out, came to me. But, um.

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Yeah, it’s a single stall garage with a lift and tools. And, like he mentioned, he has two assigned parking spaces. Which two vehicles were will reside in on the. I don’t remember which side of the building, but, um, yeah, it was not much to really talk about. I mean, I didn’t really have any questions for him.

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Okay, good. Um, unrelated to his application tonight, this particular, uh, property, uh, came with, um, a lot of complaints early on, and I’m not trying to I’m not trying to connect the two by any means. Just since you were there. That does things.

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Do things look presentable out there? Nobody showed up from the neighborhood, which got plenty of people from neighborhood show up previously, so. Right. I would say from what I saw, no, I mean, it was on Saturday. It was pretty empty. And there were was I don’t know if it was 109 next to him or maybe 108 that had people there.

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But no, it was nothing that I saw that was alarming. Okay, good. Well that’s great. Like I said, there’s nobody here from the neighborhood group. So, uh, and, uh, city planner mentioned that we’re not getting calls, uh, within that city hall here with complaints.

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So it’s good to know that they’ve they’ve made made amends and made everything right. Uh, and they’re abiding by the rules of. There was a conditional use permit over that whole property. You’re correct. So they’re abiding by their conditional use? Uh, rules. I guess you could call them. And then we’re not having any issues there.

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So, uh, also before us tonight is a memo from, uh, the city planner. Mr. Hawkesworth. Um, we all had in our packet. We read it. Is there anything you would like to specifically highlight from your recommendation memo? Um, no, I think this one’s pretty cut and dry.

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Uh, the staff recommendations here in the conditions for the approval are similar to almost every other conditional use permit that we have out there. Um, so it’s pretty standard as far as, um, what we’re recommending as far as conditions. Um, you just do make note that there is that easement, that road easement, that is the only way to access the property.

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Um, so we want to ensure that there is only one parking, one car parked out there. Um, then the other two are over in that those two south, um, designated parking spots. Um, and then, yeah, basically, it’s just a commercial district here.

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One or CD, one zoning, um, and an auto body shop is permitted as a conditional use in that district. No additional landscaping, parking, lighting or trash enclosed enclosures were proposed. Okay. Um. Let’s see. Mister Wrangler, anything to add to that? No, no. Okay. Uh, this is a public hearing tonight.

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Uh, so we, uh, for, the purposes of this meeting, we are required to open it. Uh, so we will open the public hearing at 607. Um, anybody in the audience that wishes to be heard would need to come forward at this time to speak. Uh, there is nobody in the audience. Um, so with that, for your note purposes, uh, Mr.

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Ellsworth, uh, I’m going to go ahead and close the public hearing at 607 and a half or 608, whatever works best for your meeting. Minute notes. Uh, further discussion from commissioners. No. Mr. Miller, I assume you have a recommendation to combination and and or, um, motion that you would like to make for us? Yes.

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I’ll make a motion to approve PCA auto body conditional use permit located on 13408 highway 65, with the following stipulations. No motor vehicle sales max of one additional employee. All repairs done inside. All fluids contained no bodywork or painting of vehicles. No outdoor storage of any kind.

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Um, and I noted that two vehicles would be parked in as designated parking spots. He parked in front of the garage. Hours of operation b be between 7 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday through Saturday. This one was a little confusing to me that we that that he put on his recommendation, his security lighting. That to me is on the owner.

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But I put it in my stipulation. Uh required the meets all city, county and state requirements for an auto body shop. Okay. Thank you. We have a motion. I’ll second. We have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All those in favor of the motion, please signify by saying aye. Aye aye aye.

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Those opposed you have the recommendation from this board. I’m moving forward to City Council to approve your conditional use permit. Uh, City Council will meet two weeks from today. I believe. Um, at 6:00. They typically would have this in their consent agenda. There wouldn’t necessarily be a specific item for for you to have to discuss.

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That being said, we still do recommend you show up for council meeting in the event that they would have a question that you would be here to help answer that. Um, any further questions from us? Okay. Welcome to Ham Lake. Uh, wish you the best of luck with your business. Great. Thank you.

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You’re you are welcome to go or you’re you are welcome to stay here. We’ll wrap up in a few minutes. You go. Thank you. Thank you. Good night. Uh. Let’s see. Last time around was just the Coon Creek Watershed District. Uh, state plan approval for, uh, additional parking lot.

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I assume city council approved that. Yep. Um, would you like rec or would you like, uh, representation from this board at the meeting? Two weeks from now. Uh, shouldn’t be necessary. Okay. Motion to adjourn. Second. All in favor? I.