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LAKE ELMO CITY COUNCIL MINUTES AUGUST 10, 1993 2 FUEL OPERATION AND CONVENIENCE STORE: As part of the same building that hous6the restaurant, there will be a 3,000 sq.ft. convenience store, fuel operation, driver's lounge, game room, TV room, showering faculties, laundry services and barber shop. USAGE OF PROPERTY: 60% of the vehicles that come on the property (average across the 70 Flying J Travel Plazas) will be automobiles, 40% will be trucks. Do not have any facility that caters more to trucks than automobiles. Projected average number of trucks per day: 600-700 trucks per day. There will be some trucks that will wait in anticipation of another load. NOISE: There is land around the facility so they would be able to buffer. They have had to do noise studies at some locations prior to building. In several instances the Interstate generated more noise than the idling trucks. PROPOSED PROJECT: Approx. 145 employees --some will be part time employees (of that total will pay out in salaries that will cost $90,000 per month.) 95% of the 145 employees are hired locally. Train maintenance people to serve as security. Security problems such as prostitution, drugs, drunks-- very minimal calls. ( Travel Plaza facility will cost $5 million and the Motel $2 million. Does not include land costs --they will own the land. Gross sales per year are $20-$25 million. Taxes paid: room tax on the motel, sales tax, fuel tax, property tax. It would generate from $400,000 to $500,000 of real estate taxes. Councilman Johnson expressed his concern on the city being saddled with extra security to take care of this development and asked if they would consider adding security and maintain a separate security force? Gary Taschima responded they would not object to adding security, but he would like the ability to take it away if not necessary. RESTAURANT: Thads Restaurant is not a franchise situation, they operate all of them. The restaurant will seat 160 at a combination of counter, booth, and dining room seating and will be open 24 hours a day. Telephones will be in the booths of the restaurants. The do have a Wendys or a Hardees on other sites. They don't have McDonald franchises, but have McDonalds that are on an out parcel of their site or a detached McDonalds franchised by a separate group.