Agenda - Council - 12/14/2004 - Laserfiche WebLink

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At the December 2"a Planning Commission, the City Staff and Planning Commissioners discussed concerns' with the design of the drive-thru feature on the Pond Building, in combination with the drive-thru pharmacy feature on the Coborn's bUilding, resulting in conflicting traffic patterns and flow through this westerly parking lot. Specifically~. the following issues were raised: a) b) c) d) e) the length of the drive-thru lane may be inadequate depending on the tenant; the traffic conflicts that could arise from the entrance to the drive thru lane being so close to the entrance to the parking lot; orderly traffic patterns with two drive-thru's in the same area (Pond Building and Coborn's Pharmacy); - impact on traffic flow to both drive-thru's if Cobom's expands as anticipated; continued compliance with off-street parking requirements for the multiple uses on Lots 1 and 2 as parking spaces would have to be removed to still accommodate. 2 drive-thrus if Cobom's expansion occurs at some point in the future. Subsequent'to the Planning Commission meeting, Ramdance submitted revised plans for site layout, grading, and future site layout dated December 7, 2004. The drive-thru for the Pond Building was lengthened to accommodate 4 rather than 3 vehicles The tenant Will be Caribou Coffee, which involves much less traffic than a fast' food restaurant. Caribou's standard is accommodating 4 vehicles: 2 at menu board, ! at order board, 1 at pick-up Window; The lengthening of the drive-thru lane required loss of one parking space and revised grading plan. In addition, the curbed' parking node adjacent to the drive-thru lane was redesigned to make it virtually impossible to negotiate a right-in .turn into the drive lane and thereby decrease the potential for traffic congestion just south of the entrance into the parking lot. The plan is to also utilize parking lot directional signs 'to direct users of the Caribou drive-thru to the south end of the parking lot and then north again to the entrance to the drive-thru. Users of the pharmacy drive-thru enter the parking lot and immediately head east and south through the drive-up window. The future site layout plan to facilitate an expansion of Coborn's identifies the potential need to remove the center drive lane and 38 parking spaces from this westerly parking lot. The drive- thru traffic pattern for the pharmacy would remain basically the same as it is proposed today. The Caribou drive-thru users would still be directed to the south end of the parking lot but with the loss of the 2ntl drive lane, it will be necessary to Create a cul-de-sac type configuration at the south end to enable vehicles to nego[iate a turn to the north again to approach the drive-thru lane at Caribou. The current requirement for off-street parking spaces for Coborns, Corner Retail, Gateway Retail, Pond Building and an additional building on Lot 2 is 445. The current site layout for Town Center 3ra Addition identifies 488 spaces, which includes the loss of 1 space to extend the length of the Caribou drive-thru lane. The future site-layout eliminates another 38 parking spaces in conjuction with an expansion of Cob0ms, which results in a site total of 450 parking spaces. The future site iayout maintains compliance with the 445 parking spaces required.