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Planning Commission Regular Meeting Minutes • October 18, 1994 Page 3 1 Narlock reported that the parking lot will be well lit to discourage crime. The lights will be 2 2 foot-candles and will radiate downward. 3 Chair Gondorchin inquired as to the volume and concentration of truck traffic per day and also 4 the landscape composition. 5 Ben Herda, Civil Engineering Department of Planmark(CUB), stated that there will be truck 6 traffic 24 hours per day as CUB is a 24 hour operation. The heaviest concentration would be 7 between 4 and 10 PM. They plan to use trees or vegetation consisting of ornamental shrubs and 8 evergreens for screening the dock areas. Also,the docks are recessed 4-1/2 feet below the 9 finished floor of the parking lot and the store. 10 Bergstrom expressed concern that most of the traffic would be using one exit and entrance which 11 is located on Silver Lake Road. He commented that this area was already congested and it is 12 difficult for the northbound traffic to turn into the mall. 13 Narlock stated that customers will have access to CUB from the east and the west also. 44 Bill Poirier, Representative for Planmark, (CUB), reported that approximately 9,000 cars use this 5 roadway per week at the present time. That figure is estimated to double after the 16 redevelopment. If there is a problem where a roadway expansion would be necessary,they 17 would at that time, explore the possibility. He explained that there are still some environmental 18 issues to work out but that construction will hopefully start in September with the store opening 19 late next year. 20 Franzese inquired regarding the schedule of truck deliveries and also who would make decisions 21 regarding snow removal, etc., when there was more than one owner of property in one mall. 22 Narlock explained that there would be truck traffic all day long with most of it occurring in the 23 evening. It should not conflict or compound the traffic problem. 24 Poirier explained that the parties would have an operating easement agreement which would 25 allow for parking lot clean-up, snow removal, sidewalk cleaning, etc. 26 Makowske inquired if there was a sufficient amount of parking area and if room for snow 27 removal had been taken into account. 28 Narlock replied that there would be more than enough parking area. A CMA value of 7 is 29 favorable and this project has a value of 7.86. WGondorchin offered that a possibility for the southbound turn-in from Silver Lake Road, would 31 be to have a better pathway cleared between the end of the building and the traffic light by TCF.