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LOCATION: The area needed is typically 130’x 40’ This size includes the garden center itself and the patio areas connected to the Flower Mart. We will locate in a place that is some distance from the front of the other businesses and out of the main stream of traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular. We want to give the Flower Mart visibility to the public without obstructing the visibility of the other neighboring businesses, and at the same time have good visibility in order to attract customers into the lot. TRAFFIC: With regard for vehicle traffic, the "Flower Mart" is placed in the selected location in order to keep any traffic disruption to a minimum. The patio areas at the front, side and back serve to protect the "Flower Mart" from vehicles and let the drivers see around the garden center. The patio fence is about 4 ft high and surrounds the "Flower Mart" on three sides. This design has been used at our "Flower Marts" for several years and we have yet to have had a problem with vehicle movement. We feel that this is a safe way to deal with vehicles. Placed in this manner, vehicles cannot park adjacent to the "Flower Mart". The circulation of vehicles in the parking lot will not be adversely affected by the "Flower Mart" due to its location in the lot. PARKING: We have designed the "Flower Mart" as we did because we feel that this is the most professional design and uses the available space to its maximum potential. Garden City has operated "Flower Marts" successfully for 5 Years in communities surrounding the Twin Cities. It has been our experience that the traffic and parking in the lots shared by the "Flower Mart" is not affected considerably due to the sharing of customers with our property owner. We bring in many customers but they are easily handled by the size of the lots we occupy. We do not want to create a congestive atmosphere for our customers or neighboring businesses. The "Flower Mart" generates business activity which varies during the business day with the most activity occurring in late afternoon and evening. There is also business activity occurring on the weekends with the most on Saturdays. Having done this type of operation for 5 years, it would be safe to say that the average amount in the "Flower Mart" at any one time is about five to six customers. The maximum amount of customers may be up to ten. There are certainly times when special sales occur that higher levels of activity may occur, but we have never seen so much that a problem has occurred in relation to the amount of cars or pedestrian traffic. THE "FLOWER MART": The typical "Flower Mart" itself is 72’ ft long and 21 ft wide and 12 ft. high. There are patio/display areas in the front, side and rear of the "Flower Mart". The entire size is 130’x 40’. See the attached drawing. The size and configuration can be adjusted somewhat in order to meet the available space. The "Flower Mart" itself is a high quality greenhouse structure which sits on the pavement and is held down with an internal system which uses water for ballast. It is a commercially made unit, which is manufactured by a Minnesota company (Poly-Tex, located in Castle Rock, MN). It is a very good looking structure which we have used for many years. 27