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Mounds View Planning Commission May 21, 1997 Regular Meeting Page 11 have to go along with the study. He also suggested that perhaps soil testing be done in relation to the underground parking concern. Commissioner Miller also expressed concern with development within the wetland buffer and the circulation around the car wash and gas station. She also inquired as to what the objection was with the gas stations: was it the gas station itself or was it that we did not need any more in Mounds View? She added that if the study showed there was a need and business for it, would we be standing in the way of progress? She also expressed concern with gas stations going out as fast as others come in but wondered if that should be the Planning Commission's concern. She added that if the buffer issue could be resolved, she believed the project had a nice mix of things, but questioned the necessity of the fast food component of the project. Chair Peterson asked if they had contracted with any one for the gas station and fast food facilities. Mr. Smith indicated that the proposed gas station would be a Holiday Station and that they had had contact with a treat-type fast food restaurant. Commissioner Stevenson expressed his concern with the viability of the gas • station and that when one opens up another one closes. He also expressed concern with the number of car washes and the water usage generated. He remarked that in the summer the residents cannot even water their lawns because of a watering ban, but yet car washes continue to operate. He did not have a problem with the convenience store and a small restaurant component but felt 10,000 square feet was rather small for a restaurant. He had no objections with the office building or senior building. He added that Silver Lake Pointe filled up and a waiting list was created and he had no doubt that the proposed senior building would also be filled. He added that the location of the ponds could be worked out. Commissioner Brooks expressed her disagreement with the convenience store/gas station component of the project. Commissioner Brasaemle expressed that he liked the concept of the planned unit development and believed it to be clearly the direction in which the consultants had indicated for the parcels. He added that he thought there were a lot of things proposed for a fairly small site. However, conceptually, he saw no problem with three of the four uses: the senior complex, the restaurant, and the office building. He indicated that he had a problem with the gas station/convenience store/fast food proposal and was having difficulty reconciling what a portion of the Towle report indicated and the opinions of the residents of Mounds View. He thought the Commission needed to wait for the SRF report in order to make a final decision which he felt could be made on April 16th.