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this portion of the City. While the proposed alignment could be viewed as a benefit to those properties between I -35E and the new Country Drive, the residential land uses fronting Condit Street and to the west of Condit Street would most likely be negatively impacted by the increased traffic and noise. Country Drive, whether in its current alignment or in its proposed routing, serves as the primary route for truck traffic between Little Canada Road and Ryan Industrial Park. The introduction of truck traffic further west into the residential area along the proposed new Country Drive alignment would appear to be a questionable if not an inappropriate plan when one considers the impacts on the existing residential land uses. The City must carefully analyze and consider the impacts on the existing residential land uses when reviewing this plan. * Vehicular access for those properties which use the existing Country Drive must be considered with this proposed realignment. Best Auto Repair, Suburban Auto Body, the Quebec Apartments and one single family home currently use Country Drive as their street frontage. It would appear that Best Auto and the properties north of Owasso Boulevard could be provided street access via the proposed street alignment along their west sides. Suburban Auto Body has street access from Owasso Boulevard and Country Drive as it is on the corner of these streets. It would appear necessary to maintain the right -of -way of Owasso Boulevard between Condit Street and Country Drive to provide full street access in this area if the auto body operation is to remain as is. If this site is redeveloped, then direct access to the proposed new alignment might be appropriate. The apartment complex currently has two driveways on Country Drive to serve the property. The garages are parallel to Condit Street as this is currently the rear of the site and the driveways pass by the apartment building on both sides. It appears from the site inspection of the property that a new driveway could be provided to serve the apartments from Condit Street at the northwest corner of the site if the access along Country Drive is eliminated. If this new access is addressed, specific design standards and issues would need to be considered including driveway size, curb cut spacing, street grades and the introduction of the apartment traffic into the single family area adjoining it. These concerns should be thoroughly considered by the City when reviewing this proposal. As noted earlier, the single family homes in the area between Country Drive and Condit Street are zoned B -3, General Business. This is also the area where it has been suggested that regrading might be feasible. If this does prove to be true, then the single family homes would have to be removed thus eliminating their access needs to Country Drive. Providing street access to the newly graded areas of this plan is also an item to consider with this proposal. The grade of the Page 26