The Committee on Regulations convened on August 27, 2024, with Councilor Kilby and Chair Ponty present. The meeting began with a call for citizen input, but no one had signed up to speak. Following this, the committee unanimously approved the minutes from the August 13, 2024, meeting. The primary item of discussion was a new auto repair shop license application from James Andrews, doing business as 508 Auto Sale and Repair, located at 59 North Corey Street. This application had been referred to the committee due to an objection letter raising concerns about the previous owner's operations, specifically regarding noise, cleanliness, late-night work, and vehicles stored against property lines. Mr. Andrews addressed these concerns, assuring the committee that he would maintain a clean property, would not perform body work or painting that would cause odors, and would not conduct late-night vehicle unloading as the previous owner had. A police department representative corroborated the history of complaints against the former business at that location. After discussion, the committee moved to approve the license with specific restrictions. The approved operating hours were set for Monday through Saturday, from 9 AM to 5 PM, with the understanding that no actual repair work would occur after 5 PM, though the owner could be on-site later. Additionally, the number of vehicles on the lot was restricted not to exceed 20. Councilor Kilby made the motion to approve with these restrictions, which was seconded by Chair Kad and carried unanimously. The meeting then adjourned.
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committee on regulations will now come to Autumn ad I'm clerk will you call the RO councelor kby here councelor Ponty chair Kad here pursuant to the open meeting law any person may make an audio or video recording of this public meeting or may transmit the meeting through any medium attendees are therefore advised that such recordings or Transmissions are being made whether perceived or unperceived by those
0:43present and are deemed acknowledgeable and permissible first item before us is citizen input is there anybody that signed up citizen input seeing none item number two is the minutes from August 13 2024 is there a motion to approve motion to approve minutes second all those in favor opposed so voted motion carries unanimously item number three is the new auto repair shop license application
1:08James Andrews uh doing business as 508 Auto Sale and repair located at 59 North Corey Street this was refer to committee on August 13 2024 uh a few folks here for the matter if you want to come on down and then if you could just state your name and address for the for the record
1:34Andrews um address address too please that my home address uh do you are you City restant you can do the businesses that's fine I'm uh 59 North cor Street
1:52okay James Andrews 594 Street perfect uh so this item was referred to committee because there was a letter that was submitted uh with an objection uh some concerns about the previous owner being um somewhat noisy uncleanly um things of that nature so do you want to speak a little bit about the businesses and any changes that you think are going to be made to the property or anything like that um yes in
2:22the what he probably meant about being Messi is the back where the tires are yeah he had uh there was some mention about um I don't know if it was vehicles or some type of inventory up against the fence that was put up on the uh on their property line yeah we don't put nothing on the fence um I think the previous owner did he had a lot of stuff back
2:42there matter of fact he left some stuff back there that we're still trying to get rid of but we want to clean that all up really nice and just put the tires back there okay um as far as the I don't I know he had a his mechanic that was in there they used to do a lot of work late at night lot of painting and stuff we don't do
3:03all that stuff we don't do body work or anything so no odor will be coming out of there no for the most part no um Madam clerk were there any restrictions in terms of operations time
3:23restrictions okay do do you know if there was any restriction on the previous okay all right y you aware of the the hours before from the previous owner if you're not that's okay do you know his hours were before what hour you plan on up I think his were 9 to five yeah you know sometimes you we like to a lot of times we're in there till 7 that your plans to to night to five
4:01yeah but it Saturdays and just Saturdays uh just Saturdays so Monday through Saturday yeah 9 to5 te anything from the police department standpoint no I know there have been a number of issues with the previous owner there were a lot of complaints from the neighbors especially regarding parking and um late night noise I know the previous owner I'm not certain if he had an auto repair yeah EX exactly I know that he
4:31had an auto sales license that allotted him 20 spots on the lot um and with that auto sales license he was allowed to work on his own vehicles but not accept any customers coming in off the street um that being said I do know that he was purchasing vehicles from the auction I think that was one of the number one complaints from the neighbors that he was bringing in a trailer late at night
4:50unloading vehicle so I don't know if that was mentioned in the letter but I do recall yep getting those complaints often okay as far as the this new business goes I mean we haven't received any complaints and I know that here stly auto sales at the moment but we haven't had any issues with them up to this point how many vehicles are you anticipating on the lot um probably not the 20 not the 20 no okay
5:16yeah you going to operator sir you going to operate do you have any question you come there nothing like a new person your age starting a new business so good luck to you because I plan on supporting it thank you and I would ask um that our clerk give a copy of this letter if you don't have it already from the one person who objected I don't and it lists her complaints so you know be
5:45good neighbors I think you're conscience of the effort that someone has certain things from the previous owner yeah so yeah I remember that nowo because we worked with them for a while and they did have uh they would bring in a lot L of cause trailers at night we don't we're not going to be doing that so sorry we get letters like this we take them serious because we want people that
6:08coexist nicely less time for the police to be there and and different things so so I I plan on supporting it uh do you want to so before we place any restrictions so Monday through Saturday 9: to5 is reasonable for you folks okay and then we'll um we'll keep the 20 Vehicles obviously not to exceed 20 vehicles that are that are on the lot do you want to make a motion to that
6:31please motion to that fact uh motion was made by councilor Kilby second by myself discussion hearing I'm sorry we are 20 Vehicles correct motion to approve with those restrictions all those in favor I oppos so voted motion carries congratulations um and that's all we have before now we allowed to be there a little bit later how how's that you you can be you just can't be doing any actual work after I think Common
7:04Sense always rules on these things motion to adjourn motion to adjourn second all those in favor I for coming down so voted motion carries committee on regulations is now Dred thank you