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Main Street Village page 10 for Kwik Trip shows a car wash directional sign on a neighboring property. This likely is a plan error and will be addressed as a condition of approval. Park/Trails Plan and Park Dedication: The parks plan shows Natural Resource Protection Areas corresponding to the locations of wetlands, as indicated by the wetland delineation. These are wetland areas that will be protected by existing wetland law. As noted above, the wetland mitigation plan has been reviewed by the Rice Creek Watershed District. The protected wetlands will be covered by drainage and utility easements. The Park, Greenway, and Trail System plan shows a trail along Otter Lake Road and bikeway and linking trail along Main Street. A trail exists on the east side of Otter Lake Road. There is an existing trail on the north side of Main St starting at Otter Lake Road and going east. The Main Street/Otter Lake Road intersection is a good crossing point from those trails to the project site because it is signalized. There is no trail currently abutting the project site, but one is planned on the south side of Main Street as part of the interchange reconstruction. The latest plans for Main Street Village include a sidewalk link to that future trail. The plans also include crosswalks within the project to facilitate pedestrian crossing of driveways and the internal road Park dedication for commercial development is $2175 per acre. Dedication cash can be credited for trail construction that is part of a development project. For development that includes 24 acres of upland (the entire site), this would be over $52,000. Phase one of the site includes about eight acres, so as an option the City could collect park dedication for phase one with the first final plat and the rest when future development occurs. Conditional Use Permits Three CUPs are needed for the project: 1) the commercial planned unit development itself is a CUP; 2) a motor fuel station; and 3) a car wash. The discussion above addresses the CUP for the planned unit development. The actual requirements in the Zoning Ordinance for the motor fuel station and car wash are addressed as findings and/or conditions of approval in the respective resolutions. Motor Fuel Station: Section 7, Subd. 3.H.7. includes a lengthy list of requirements for a motor fuel station conditional use permit. The submittal complies with almost all of the CUP requirements. Architectural and signage issues merge somewhat with a gas station. The building meets the architectural standards, but the canopy cannot have a lighted color band and this is clarified in a condition of approval. (This was enforced in the approved plan for the new Holiday station on I -35W and Lake Drive, which will be built when the bridge and roadwork are completed.) Car Wash: The CUP requirements for a commercial car wash are listed in Section 7, Subd. 3.H.3. To summarize- a. The site will be served by sanitary sewer. b. The architecture is consistent with the surrounding buildings. •