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-9- ® 1 Mr. Childs indicated the four parking spaces Amoco proposed to provide on the site 2 would meet the Ordinance .requirement for one parking stall for every 300 square 3 feet and, he told Commissioner-Jones the Ordinance doesn 't specifically provide for 4 employee parking for commercial property. 5 6 Commissioner Bjorkl-und indicated..he had observed a profusion of signs which had 7 gone -up al-1 over the -Standard., tation since the owner was granted a variance for 8 the inclusion of price changes in the' sign on the corner: He believed the Com- 9 mission should have_ a complete history: of all variances which had been granted 10 for that property in the past. The Manager- reminded him that most of the signage 11 had been installed before the Sign Ordinance went into effect. The Commissioner 12 replied that he anticipated Amoco might not realize St. Anthony 's Sign Ordinance 13 was more stringent than most and he could foresee they mightwant signs all over 14 their site advertising the food sale, gas service, the car wash, etc. and he wanted 15 the amount of signage which would be a]-lowed established right from the start. 16 17 The plans Mr. Filippi showed did not reflect the changes which would have to be 18 made to accomodate the County's plans for that corner. He said the post for the 19 canopy would- be in the middle of an, island which would be 27 feet from the side 20 of the property and pointed out the . location of the four pumps which would be 21 installed at this time and the .location of the two pumps which might be added later 22 if the market indicates a need for them:- A one foot variance for the latter 23 would be necessary at that time, he added. 24 25 The engineer indicated the St. Anthony station would be almost identical to 26 another Amoco station at, White" Bear and Suburban Avenues in St. Paul and he showed • 27 an illustration of the station which he indicated had essentially the same type of 28 signage proposed for this station. 29 30 With the 13 or. 14 feet of clear span"of spaceunder the canopy, Mr. Filippi indicated 31 he 'anticipated no problem with sight distance across the corner of the property, 32 and he said the widened..curb cuts planned for: 37th Avenue had been taken from the 33 County's plans for the site anal the County had indicated to him .they perceived 34 no problem with the canopy variance. Because of the change in the plans, there 35 was a strong consideration on Amoco''s part to move the proposed storage tanks back 36 of the stationbuilding-. accordi.ng,to the cons u'ltant, -who pointed out the traffic 37 flows through .the property.to Commissioner Jones. He said 'the car wash traffic 38 woul.d` be oriented towards Silver Lake Road where the median proposed by the .39 County would prevent northbound traffic. -The .Manager indicated no median is 40 planned for 37th Avenue except the triangular right turn lane on the east side 41 of Silver Lake Road. 42 43 Mr. Filippi, did-not anticipate parking problems on the site because most customers ' 44 cars would be parked at the .pumpswhile they 'go into .the store to pay for their 45 gas, and the fact that mostly convenience food would be sold would probably shorten 46 that .stop. 47 48 Richard Freb.erg, who operated Dick's Standard which is being replaced by Amoco, 49 indicated -he was. "completely opposed to the type of station the new owners plan 50 to operate, which woul.d result in' a loss of-- full service for the community". 51 He said, .with. the fast food aspects of the new station, he would anticipate the • 52 traffic could be -tripled on that corner. Mr. Freberg* said .he .understands Amoco' 53 plans to pump 2.4 million gallons of gas. a year from that location, which could 54 mean 700:.c.ar.s_ passing through the station .a day. The former station operator told 55 the Chair Pro Tem the station would be*owned by Amoco but "that he has the right 56 to continue to operate it.