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be generated from Great Northern Mall; 7% coming up Country Club _Boulevard from the west: 28% coming from I-480, -north on Great Northern Blvd. Based on those figures, Mr. Thomas questioned the justification of an additional right out driveway when 60% of the traffic will be going left. Mr. Newberry explained that the analysis is based an peak hour traffic and showed a total of 73 cars on Friday afternoon from 5 to 6:00 p.m. leaving the site and making a right turn to go east on Brookpark Road. Seventy three cars stacked at one entrance will cause delays, it is estimated that about 11 of those cars or 13% will use the right turn drive. Mr. Thomas was concerned that cars would drive back and forth to find the easiest way out and doubted that a right turn only could be controlled. r1r. Newberry responded that it would be impossible to turn left because there is a median strip. Mr. Orlowski noted that cars turning right at the main access would slow down the traffic causing stacking problems. Mr. Newberry pointed out that there is 500 feet between the drives and should allow at least 2 cars to get out before the cars turning right get to that drive. He reiterated that they were not asking for a cut in the median at this drive. Mrs. 0'Rourke believed that traffic would turn east onto Brookpark, then go south to Country Club to get to I-480. Mr. Newberry stated that having a number of exits would diffuse the traffic. Mr. Bingham pointed out the building had two exits which would make it easier for them to exit at different locations. Mrs. 0'Rourke believed that would help the customer traffic, but not the traffic problems. Mr. Newberry stated that the Great Northern intersection works well and most drivers would use it. He advised 14r. Miller that there was about 1,157 feet from the center line of Great Northern to the center line of the second entrance. There would be 3 lights in about 3,500 feet: one at Great Northern, one at their entrance, and one at Columbia Road. The left turn lane shown on the drawing at the main drive would be to service the vacant parcel across the street and is only to show how things would line up. Mr. Thomas asked if they intended to pay for this lane tahen they construct the intersection. Mr. Newberry responded that they would pay for whatever is required by the city. In response to Mr. Miller's questions, Mr. Bingham stated that he could not comnit to specific hours of operation at this time; that Biskind did not require Wal-Mart to place this store at this particular location and they would be free to locate the store elsewhere on the property; however, Biskind did have certain obligations relative to parking agreements with their tenants, and this location was best for tidal-Mart's internal requirements; and that they could change the location of the store without negating their deal, but this building was a highly sophisticated merchandising floor layout plan with the building skin dropped around the edges and is critical to their operation. Regarding the wetlands, Mr. Newberry advised Mr. Miller that they had submitted their wetlands investigation about December 20th, and in response to the Army Corp of Engineers they submitted additional information which xqas received by them on January 18th. Typically, it takes 4 to 8 weeks for them to complete their investigation depending on the weather. Mr. Miller would like specific information on the various heights mentioned for the buffers. Mr. Newberry responded that the buffer along the east side of the property is to be mounded at a minimum of 52 feet above floor elevation of the building, wherever it is possible they will try to make it 8 feet. above, specifically the area behind the building where the contours are not shown, it will have to taper down because of the limited amount of space between them and their neighbors, and it will be 9z feet above the truck dock level. It will be 8 to 10 feet above the grade at the property line, with the 8 foot decorative fence along the mound on the condominium side, but it could be installed on top of the mound. r1r. Newberry stated that the 6 foot fence shown on the landscape plan was in error. There will be 8 to 12 to 15 feet evergreen trees planted to fill in between the upper story trees which would be seen above ?. 7