A 100-acre storage area for automobiles in St. Paul Park, Minnesota, is a prospect local officials don’t like — but don’t think they can derail it.
BNSF Railway plans to store up to 6,000 automobiles unloaded from railroad cars until they are loaded onto trucks to be taken to dealerships. Some 65 trucks would go in and out of the site every day.
“There is not a lot we can do to stop it,” said Mayor Keith Franke. The land is zoned for residential use, but zoning regulations do not apply to this railroad project, he said.
