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Oakdale waffle-lovers won't have another place to indulge after all, at least not in the strip mall on Helmo Avenue just south of 15th Street. Building owner Doug Coombs is putting the brakes on a plan open a café at 1417 Helmo Ave. serving coffee, waffles, other breakfast foods and ice cream due to the high cost of getting the necessary permits to establish a restaurant in space that previously housed just a coffee shop. "I wanted to make the business better, my mistake, and it's costing me," he said. He had wanted to get the business started, . The high price tag comes primarily from fees charged by the Metropolitan Council for the increased sewer demand created by a restaurant. It's a <a href="http://www.metrocouncil.org/environment/ratesbilling/sac_program.htm" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">one-time fee</a>, Oakdale Building Official Bill Schmitt said, and in this case the charge totaled $24,000. Schmitt said he had to stop the café project until the <a href="http://metrocouncil.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Met Council</a> and Washington County food service permits were obtained. Coombs said now he's hoping to get an office tenant, or some other renter in the space that won't require the pricey permit. He's also hoping to sell the building, he said, which he's owned for 17 years.

Oakdale waffle-lovers won’t have another place to indulge after all, at least not in the strip mall on Helmo Avenue just south of 15th Street. Building owner Doug Coombs is putting the brakes on a plan open a café at 1417 Helmo Ave. serving coffee, waffles, other breakfast foods and ice cream due to the high cost of getting the necessary permits to establish a restaurant in space that previously housed just a coffee shop.

“I wanted to make the business better, my mistake, and it’s costing me,” he said. He had wanted to get the business started, .

The high price tag comes primarily from fees charged by the Metropolitan Council for the increased sewer demand created by a restaurant. It’s a <a href="http://www.metrocouncil.org/environment/ratesbilling/sac_program.htm" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">one-time fee</a>, Oakdale Building Official Bill Schmitt said, and in this case the charge totaled $24,000. Schmitt said he had to stop the café project until the <a href="http://metrocouncil.org/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">Met Council</a> and Washington County food service permits were obtained.

Coombs said now he’s hoping to get an office tenant, or some other renter in the space that won’t require the pricey permit. He’s also hoping to sell the building, he said, which he’s owned for 17 years.

Oakdale

The owner of a strip mall on Helmo Avenue decided against opening a café that would serve, coffee, breakfast foods and ice cream after learning he'd have to pay a fee of more than $20,000.