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• 1 now because most drivers are past any available parking space by the 2 time they realize the drive-up lanes are filled up but said he wasn' t 3 certain the bypass lane would be a real gain towards redirecting the 4 traffic to the parking areas. The resident told the Commissioners 5 people who can' t find parking spaces during the busiest time come back 6 out into the street to park way up past his house and on Penrod Lane 7 and he hadn' t been convinced the bypass would correct that situation. 8 He conceded however that providing extra parking spaces might help 9 some by providing extra parking spaces for employees which in turn 10 would leave more space for customer parking. 11 Mr. Stanley concluded by saying he perceived that while the new 12 proposal might help to clean up some of the existing traffic and 13 parking problems , going south would be much better. 14 Ruth Nelson, 3916 Macalaster Drive N.E. , said she would also prefer to 15 see the expansion made to the south, perceiving that the bank wouldn' t 16 have much of its own property left on the south side with this 17 proposal. She thought it was important to keep the required setbacks 18 in residential neighborhoods and echoed her neighbor ' s preference for 19 grass and trees to look at rather than concrete. 20 Kenneth Lee, said in addition to his home at 3904 Penrod Lane, he 21 also owned the vacant lot across the street where somebody would 22 probably be living one of these days, and he believed it would 23 probably be better for both properties to have the bank expand to the �24 south. However, he said, he knew from having seen the bond papers 25 for the St. Anthony schools , how important Apache Plaza on the land he 26 once owned, had been to the community. He was, therefore, quite 27 conscious of just how important it was to have flourishing businesses 28 like TCF in St. Anthony and not to have the City take actions which 29 would prevent them from operating successfully. Mr. Lee said he 30 enjoyed looking out the window every morning to find out from TCF;s 31 sign what the weather was, but said he expected some day there would 32 probably have to be a privacy fence erected between the residential to 33 the east and the bank property. 34 Mr. Galush responded to the resident statements by saying: 35 *TCF is sensitive to the concerns and neighbors and certainly 36 wouldn't want to create any ill feelings with them; 37 *the bank had been as objective as it could be in planning for 38 the expansion which the addition of checking and customer 39 preference for drive-up services necessitated; 40 *at the time of the tornado, the bank had realized they had made 41 a mistake by not including a bypass for emergency vehicles in 42 their original construction because the power trucks could not 43 get close enough to the building to service the wires which were 44 exposed as the storm tore off the roof of the building; • 5