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are already there and change their patterns of dropping off their kids. Staff looked at traffic added by restaurants. Delis are not specifically listed in the traffic generation manuals; the manuals include sit-down restaurants, fast food without a drive-thru, and fast food with a drive- thru. The consultant recommended considering the classification of fast food with a drive-thru. This would generate 50 trips per hour at the peak p.m. hour; that is about one per minute so it is not extreme. The traffic would be distributed coming out of the site; it would not all be concentrated. There would be additional trips, which was alluded to earlier in this case. The Planning Commission was inclined to limit the hours of the deli so there may not be peak p.m. hours of traffic getting onto Highway 5. . Mayor Gamec asked what the Planning Commission recommended for hours. Associate Planner Geisler replied the Planning Commission recommended hours of 6:00 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Sunday. Councilmember Dehen indicated there was mention in the notes that the times of operation would be 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Ms. Lublin stated that is the hours they were allowed to operate for the secretarial service. They are not allowed to have any outside events after 8:00 p.m. They have had employees that work there 24 hours per day. They do not want a deli that stays open until 7:00; they are thinking about closing even earlier, and she is not even sure if it will be open all seven days. The Planning Commission saw fit to arrange those hours. They plan to put up bike racks to make it a neighborhood type of thing; they are not looking for people to come off of Highway 10 to use the deli, they will not have it staffed that way. Mayor Gamec suggested some type of screening for the parking lot with a walkway for the people coming from the north. Ms. Lublin stated there have been a lot of cars coming througl). that area even though there is a gate and a sign that says it is private property. They have also had trouble with snowmobilers. As a business owner she does not want to necessarily give up the right of that access, even though they are not planning to use it. They could take it into consideration to put in a walking path. Interim City Administrator Nelson requested clarification on whether the classification of restaurant used to calculate the increase in traffic had actually been determined to be a donut shop, which would be a small cafe classification. Civil Engineer II Linton indicated the calculation for a donut shop would be 52 trips at the peak p.m. hour, which is not a large difference from the drive-thru restaurant classification he had quoted. Motion by Councilmember Strommen, seconded by Councilmember Olson, to adopt Resolution #07-07-173 adopting Findings of Fact #0801 relating to the request for an amended conditional use permit for Northern Counties Secretarial Services. City Council / July 24, 2007 Page 9 of 19