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Ms. Kathy Glanzer April 7, 1994 Page 3 Canada Road. The only potential maneuver which may create problems is for traffic facing south at the southeast pump islands desiring to directly access Little Canada Road. This traffic could block inbound traffic from Little Canada Road if other outbound traffic were also waiting in the driveway. Because of the volume of traffic exiting onto Little Canada Road, it is not anticipated that this would be a frequent occurrence. The entrances onto both Little Canada Road and Country Drive were also reviewed. The Little Canada Road entrance is wide enough and adequate radii except that if tanker trucks chose to enter from Little Canada Road, the east radius should be increased to 20 feet. The Country Drive driveway is oriented at 60 degrees to the north. This provides poor access to and from the south on Country Drive. We would suggest that the architect review the driveway entrance and reconsider making it either closer to 90 degrees or significantly increasing the radius on the south side of the driveway. We would suggest a 32 foot wide entrance at 90 degrees with a 15 foot radius on either side. Trash trucks entering the site must enter on Little Canada Road and can approach the dumpster area with little interference. They could exit using Country Drive. We assume that most of the commercial trash pickups will be done at off peak hours. There is no designated delivery entrance or delivery area onsite. We would assume that trucks will deliver by parking on the northeast side of the area. Single unit delivery trucks can enter from either driveway and utilize the north parking spaces for delivery. Entering from Country Drive, they could back in towards the dumpster area and be out of the way of any circulating traffic. Tank trucks may have a slightly more difficult time maneuvering onsite. Entering either driveway will require them to utilize the entire entrance area. It will also be necessary to have no vehicles parked in the north side in order to access the underground storage tanks. If they entered from Little Canada Road, they would have to travel through the site and utilize the Country Drive driveway to back into position to unload. They would block all parking spaces in the north area. However, they could exit via Country Drive and utilize the traffic signal for access onto Little Canada Road. This assumes that the driveway is modified as suggested above. If the tank trucks enter from Country Drive, they would either have to exit by backing onto Country Drive or turning onto Little Canada Road after traveling through the site. Again, their delivery would require blocking all parking spaces on the north side. We assume that deliveries of gas could be coordinated so that there are minimum numbers of customers and parked cars and that traffic on Little Canada Road would be minimized so that little traffic interference would result. The extremely poor onsite circulation of the Sinclair station across the street forced it to have deliveries in the very early morning hours. Tank trucks had to back onto Little Canada Road in order to leave the site. Page 44