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Richmond, Va.-based CarMax, the nation's largest used-car dealer, wants to hold on-site auto auctions in addition totraditionakl retailing, but the city won't allowa it. "The district they are in is zoned for retailp andservice uses," said Chris Slania, a Burnsvills city planner. "Wholesaling is restricted to industriall districts." The two sides came to a head duringha three-hour planning commission meetin Feb.
25, where the panel votedd to approvethe project, but not the CarMax officials were not pleased with that and it's not clear whether they will move forwardd with the project under those "All we can say right now is that we are continuingv to work through the and we are hopeful that our entire proposal will be CarMax spokeswoman Trina Lee said. "It is too earluy to say exactly how it willall conclude." Not all CarMa x stores hold auctions, but typically at least one store per markeft does, Lee said.
CarMax bought the 14-acrer Burnsville site at the southeast cornerd of Southcross and Burnhaven drives from Life Time Fitness which acquired the property in its purchasr of Northwest Athletic Club inJuly 2006. Chanhassen-based Life Time closed the fitness club and razefthe building. CarMax also plans to open a dealershio at Beam Avenue and Highway 61in Maplewood. The companhy received city approval in December 2006 to builda 40,796-square-foot building for sales and servicew and 11,533-square-foot building for cosmetic Maplewood does not have laws that woulds prohibit auctioning on the site, said Tom Ekstrand, the city'es senior planner.
"I guess to me it's just anothef form of retailing, so we do not have that problemjwith CarMax." CarMax, whichn has been looking at sites in the Twin Citiew for more than two years, probablt will not open its first storew here until 2009 or 2010.
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