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Papandreas responded that the property has been zoned retail, and presumably when a city zones a property the in.frastructure should be there to support it, or the city would be in the process of trying to accommodate a.ny growth associated with such a retail corridor. He believed that there has to be a balance between the safety, health and welfare of its citizens and the rights of the properiy owners who are trying to develop their property within the limits of the law. Mr. Thomas agreed but stated that even though the city is required to provide infrastructure that will support the zoning classification of parcels, the Couunission must be careful of the equilibrium between infrastructure and development, traffic, safety, and concerns of the residents. Mr. Papandreas responded that this is exactly why they went to a category type shopping center, and have spent so much time evaluating the site, they have done about 6 traffic studies and have discrimiuated in order to find the national credit tenants with staying power; also they are .. requiring 15 ';year deals in order to address the concerns of the city, they could have used this property for any retail use under the law. They were the developer who helped to get the superstore offthis site, and have tried to come with a sensitive project that would deal with the Commissions, concems. Mr. Gorris stated that the Commission still has concems, since they helped move a 125,000 square foot development off a site to put 175,000 square foot development l;in its place. Mr. Papandreas reiterated that this is low volume category retailing, there is no T.B.O., no outdoor display, no discount operation, and this development will have this an upscale image without the extended hours -of operation and delivery and he asked the members to consider this. They, as developers, are trying to balance everyone's concems, the Commissions', their tenants and their own. Regarding the monitoring wells, he explained that they do exist and a closure plan has been established and will be monitored by EPA, but it is primarily the property owners responsibility to monitor the existing conditions and yearly reports must be submitted to the EPA and there is a monthly visual inspection and a quarterly inspection which involves testing the wells themselves. Depend.iug on the readings obtained, those wells could be abandoned in about 5 years. They cau develop arou.nd those wells providing that the access around them is maintained and that they are properly capped ofE He advised Mr. Tallon that the paved areas around the wells cannot be used for bu.ild.iug, but can be used for parking; and he stated that this is a 30 year monitoring program unless the reading fall below acceptable limits. If the reading were bad, it would be assumed that there is another source contaminating the land which is highly uulikely since there has been a clean up. Mr. Orlowski believed that the height of store `B" would need a variance as it stands and he is against coxripeting to have the highest entrance. Also he questioned how the cross entrance drive between this property and McDonald's would effect McDonald's parking. Mr. Papandreas responded that it would not impact any existing.parking. He further advised that the spaces shown as " requested landbanked parking" was in response to Mr. Thomas' request to landbank 200 spaces, but they are not in support of that. He clarified that they did believe that they could acquire Rooney's property and could put parking there. Mr. Gorris doubted that anyone would park that far away and Mrs. O'Rourke questioned, if they were not going_to be busy, why would anyone have to that far away. Mr. Papandreas explained to Mr. Miller that if they did landbank 200 spaces, they would have approximately 744 or 4 cars per 1,000 square feet. Mr. Miller clarified that that they want 5 spaces per 1,000 (net), and the city requires 6.5 spaces per 1,000 (gross). Mr. Papandreas stated that they have closed a deal with Sports Mart, they are close to closing the deal with a home appliance store, they are negotiating with a book, video, and C.D. merchandiser similar to Border's Books for store "D", and there is a possibility of a furniture store for store "A" which is 4