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Millers Crossroads Shopping Center Supplemental Report page 2 The 2003 plan for the commercial site included 59% impervious surface coverage. This complied with the Limited Business zone impervious requirement. Much if not all of the site is within 1000 feet of the ordinary high water level of Baldwin Lake (883.1), so it is within the shoreland overlay area. The 2003 plan complied with the impervious maximum under the shoreland overlay zone requirement. The following table summarizes the impervious surface analysis: acres sf Yo impervious % pervious total site 1.84 80,150 impervious with 87 pkg stalls 56,361 70% pervious with 87 pkg stalls 23,789 30% impervious with 107 pkg stalls 60,885 76% pervious with 107 pkg stalls 19,265 24% maximum impervious in LB zone 65% maximum impervious for commercial site in shoreland overlay zone 60% On the August 2006 site plan submittal, the site statistics lists the following data: "Total Green Area: 27, 704 sf = .64 acres = 35% ( >35% required) ". This statement clearly does not reflect the impervious area of the proposal: 56,361 sf. In addition to the fact that the zoning ordinance requires compliance with performance standards in order to approve a CUP, the drive lane around the back of the building is necessary for the drive through facility. This is additional impervious surface that would not be needed without the drive through facility. Screening The City Council discussion included landscaping and screening that to fulfill the requirement of the zoning ordinance. Section 3, Subd. 4.Q. states in part: Where any business or industrial use (i.e., structure, parking or storage) abuts property zoned for residential use, that business or industry shall provide screening along the boundary of the residential property. Screening shall also be provided where a business or industry is across the street from a residential zone, but not on that side of a business or industry considered to be the front (as determined by the Zoning Administrator). All the fencing and screening specifically required by this Ordinance shall be subject to Section 3, Subd. 4.Q. and shall consist of either a fence or a green belt planting strip as provided for below: a. A green belt planting strip shall consist of vegetation and plants and shall be of sufficient width and density to provide an effective visual screen. This planting strip shall be designed to provide eighty (80) percent opacity to a minimum height of six