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Fw: Pawn shops in Roseville From: Karen Rajcic Date: Apr 17 23:30 UTC Short link
----- Forwarded Message ---- From: K R <<email obscured>> To: Dan Roe <<email obscured>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 6:21:27 PM Subject: Re: [RIF] Pawn shops in Roseville I am very against pawn shops in Roseville. There are several close by pawn shops that a person could go to if they needed one. For example the strip mall on Snelling and University. There are also several in Northeast Minneapolis (a very large one on Central avenue and 694 you can see it from the road) and there are quite a few in Maplewood. I believe there is also one in Little Canada. So unless a handful of people who don't drive or use public transportation need to walk to a pawn shop, we do not need one in our overdeveloped, retail city. The city with the highest density retail to resident ratio in the state if not the US. The city is surrounded by pawn shops in every direction if you need to pawn something you have your pick. Strip joints do serve an apparently needed service too. But we won't have them in Roseville. I also disagree with the statement that there is not factual info. to back this negative perception. Who has done the research? What university can give the statistical evidence that pawn shops are not detrimental? Why does a person use a pawn shop? Why not have a garage sale if you need money? Most people also use ebay or some online sale to get money. Stolen items are usually traded at pawn shops and if they don't have serial numbers on the items such as jewelry there is not way to trace back to a store and especially no way to trace back to a homeowner. Have you been into a pawnshop? Do you know anyone who has used one? There is a reason there is a negative perception, but it is not a perception it is a reality. Just take a few shopping trips to pawn shops. Do a little of your own investigating. You will see that a pawn shop in Roseville is not necessary. Pawn America is all over and very accessible to those who would like to use it. Just as people who want to go to the casinos get there. People who want to go to pawn shops will get to them. Residents did not want a Big box in Twin Lakes. Do you think a pawn shop is a better choice? Thanks for drawing this matter to our attention. Karen ----- Original Message ---- From: Dan Roe <<email obscured>> To: Roseville Issues Forum <<email obscured>> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:48:01 PM Subject: [RIF] Pawn shops in Roseville There is a pretty healthy amount of feedback to the City Council at this time regarding an application for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a pawn shop at the strip center on the NW corner of Snelling Ave and Co Rd B. (The application is to be considered by the Council at its April 28th meeting.) Pawn shops, like liquor stores, are legal but pretty heavily regulated businesses in Minnesota, through a licensing process. Local cities are also able to put zoning restrictions on where they may be located, etc., as well as licensing restrictions on how they must cooperate with local police, etc. This type of business seems to have a very negative perception in the public, but there seems to be little factual information to back up peoples' concerns. See this link for an interesting opinion piece: http://www.twin-cities.com/opinion/ Certainly, pawn shops do serve an apparently needed service. Certainly, they have an incentive to cooperate with the local police, including electronic reporting of new items, which Roseville requires. See the Roseville City Code, Chapter 311, for more on our licensing and operation requirements for pawn shops. The code is available at the city's web site at www.ci.roseville.mn.us. Should we allow pawn shops at all in Roseville? Should we put restrictions on their locations, or how many licenses we allow, as we do with liquor stores? What are peoples' thoughts on this topic? Dan Roe Info about Dan Roe: http://forums.e-democracy.org/contacts/danroe This topic's messages may be viewed at: http://forums.e-democracy.org/r/topic/6TjwMyFWRQxOF08iO6Da6b ----------------------------------------- To post, send your message to: <email obscured> To leave or for daily digest, type "unsubscribe" or "digest on," in subject line and send to: <email obscured> More info about Roseville Issues Forum: http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/roseville-issues E-Democracy.Org rules: http://e-democracy.org/rules ----------------------------------------- Technical assistance thanks to our friends at http://OnlineGroups.Net Roseville Issues Forum http://forums.e-democracy.org/groups/roseville-issues/stats.html ________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ