Car wash OK’d for prominent corner

A brand new, computerized automobile wash operated by Mister Automotive Wash was accredited for the northwest nook of Flying Cloud and Prairie Heart drives by the Eden Prairie Metropolis Council on Tuesday.

The Oct. 17 vote to OK the mission – on vacant land the place a Burger King restaurant as soon as stood – was unanimous and with out debate.

There’s at the moment a Mister Automotive Wash that’s been working since 1999 only a block north of the nook web site, but it surely’s at capability and has poor circulation for autos, stated Mister Automotive Wash consultant Prabhs Matharoo. It is going to be shut down and bought when the brand new facility is prepared for operation, he stated.

Along with offering a extra fashionable operation and extra capability, the brand new facility will have the ability to recycle at the very least 50% of the water used to clean vehicles, in response to the nationwide chain. On the present automobile wash, as much as 10% of water is recycled.

The proposed 5,400-square-foot constructing could be about 1,200 sq. ft bigger than what now exists.

Coincidentally, this might be the primary of two Burger King-to-car wash transformations in Eden Prairie. A Crew Carwash is proposed for an additional former Burger King property in Eden Prairie, on the southeast nook of Freeway 5 and County Highway 4 (Eden Prairie Highway). Nonetheless, the automobile wash mission has not but been scheduled for planning fee or metropolis council assessment.

Mayor Ron Case did deal with neighborhood considerations about the potential for automobile washes being constructed on two distinguished Eden Prairie road corners. He and metropolis employees famous that Burger King had put limitations on what a purchaser might construct on the 2 websites, and had dominated out meals companies.

“Generally folks will say, ‘Two automobile washes!’ And instantly, all their concepts come out,” Case stated.

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However, cities don’t sometimes dictate which particular companies purchase and develop websites, he identified.

“It’s simply not throughout the purview of the town council or metropolis authorities. It’s not what we do,” he added. “We handle growth. There are landowners; they promote privately to different landowners who are available in with growth tasks. We have a look at what is available in primarily based on our code and our insurance policies and procedures, and we approve or deny primarily based on these set of standards. Not whether or not we prefer it or whether or not we wished one thing else to come back in.

“Native municipal authorities throughout the U.S.,” stated Case, “doesn’t have among the powers that typically folks count on that we do.”