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Vadnais Heights City Council <br />Walmart Building Addition — 15 October 2010 <br />Page 11 <br />Building Facade <br />The building facade will receive a new color scheme as shown below. I believe that the <br />proposed building facade is consistent with the intentions of the City Center zoning district. <br />Traffic <br />According to a traffic impact study prepared by MFRA, Inc., the applicant's engineer, dated <br />13 June 2010, the building addition will generate an additional 71 trips during the AM peak <br />hour and 53 additional trips during the PM peak hour. These additional trips will not have an <br />adverse impact on the current levels of service at the site entrances. The Level of Service at <br />each of the four site entrances is forecast to be the same in the first year after the store is <br />expanded as it was before it was expanded, as shown by the following table. Therefore, no <br />mitigation actions are needed. Traffic engineer Thomas Sohrweide, PE, PTOE, of SEH, Inc., <br />has reviewed the applicant's traffic study and agrees with its conclusions. <br />Existing and Forecast Traffic Level of Service <br />AM Peak Hour PM Peak Hour Saturday Peak Hour <br />Existing 2011 Build Existing = 2011 Build Existing 2011 Build <br />NountaRoad E/ I st B B I C I C I C C I <br />County Road E/ I A A I A I A I A A I <br />Center <br />County Road E= B B _ C _ C _ C C <br />at Arcade Street <br />Arcade Street / A A 1 A A A A <br />Southwest <br />Source: Traffic Impact Study for the Vadnais Heights Walmart Store Expansion, MFRA, Inc., June <br />13, 2010. <br />Nonetheless, Walmart is proposing minor site plan modifications to improve traffic flow and <br />to address concerns raised by City staff in previous meetings with Walmart representatives. <br />3824 Huntington Avenue St. Louis Park, Minnesota 55416 <br />952.451.4818 bill@weberplanning.com <br />