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J <br />:i <br />r <br />i? <br />Mr. Tallon commented that the second part of this proposal is Home Depot. Mr. John <br />Fredrickson with Casco Corporation, representing Home Depot, came forward to review the <br />proposal. Mr. Fredrickson explained that the Home Depot is proposing a tool rental center <br />which customers can rent the special tools that they don't have to finish a project conectly. This <br />is not a heavy equiprrient dealer. It will specialize in equipment that one or two people could <br />load into the back of a pick up truck. Eighty percent of the tools are electric or manual powered. <br />The tool rental center will be staffed by Home Depot employees. Tools are restored to like new <br />conditions after they are returned from renters. Mr. Fredrickson commented he can not represent <br />Home Depot directly, but he brought Sam Packard the store manager with him. Mr. Fredrickson <br />passed out a list of tools that the rental center would have in stock. There will be a small <br />addition on the front of the store. The addition is proposed to match the existing building <br />materials, the brick and split-faced block, exactly. They are adding another entrance and some <br />storefront glass. They are maintaining the vertical pilasters on either side. Mrs. O'Rourke <br />questioned if there was sidewalk in front of this entrance. W. Fredrickson answered "yes" there <br />is sidewalk, basically the tool rental center takes an area of the store that has had some <br />merchandise on it from time to time and prohibits the store from utilizing any of that area now <br />from having any merchandise there. There will not be any room for that because there is a <br />sidewalk area in front of the tool rental center and that sidewalk area does connect over on either <br />side to loading areas. Mr. Fredrickson then commented that they didn't want to add another <br />orange roof element, they wanted the rental center to be all masonry and done in a way that's <br />very consistent with the main building behind it. Mr. Tallon questioned if they looked at the <br />feasibility of taking.the tool rental and taking it down between the other two entranceways. Why <br />create a new pickup zone when you could put it all in one. Mr. Fredrickson explained they had <br />not considered that and the reason they had not considered that is because that -is a covered <br />loading area for lumber, large items, and in this case a loading area for some of these tools. W. <br />Fredrickson explained they could consider putting it under the canopy if they can still maintain <br />the flow through there. Mr. Tallon noticed that Mr. Fredrickson said they would be renting out <br />smaller items, but as he went through the list he saw a loader bobcat and an excavator bobcat. <br />Mrs. O'Rourke commented that those are pretty big. Mr: Fredrickson replied that those are the <br />laxgest items in there and if there were any items of that size they would be located in an area <br />inside the store or in the garden center. Mr. Koeth questioned if he could purchase and rent <br />items at the same cash register. W. Sam Packard answered that you can purchase and rent items <br />at the same counters. W. Koeth commented that right now there are several hundred costumer <br />shopping carts where the proposed entrance is, and wanted to know where those will be stored. <br />Mr. Packard answered those will be coming back in as the weather gets nastier. Mr. Koeth <br />commented that way in the beginning when Home Depot was going to be built here one of the <br />things that Mr. Hreha had said and all of the Planning Commission members agreed upon was <br />the store was not to keep sales items and carts outside the front of the building. W. Koeth then <br />recommended that they move the rental center down by the doors and he would definitely <br />recommend that a lot of that stuff along the outside be put in the vestibule where it belongs. Mr. <br />Spalding commented that the board is also concerned with the pedestrian traffic going through <br />there to make sure that nobody who is walking along the sidewalk would hav.e interference with <br />shopping carts and people coming out with heavy equipment. Mr. Ta11on commented that when <br />Home Depot first came through he told the developer that he had gone to a new home depot on <br />Brookpark opening and it looked nice for the most part, but when he went back three months <br />later it looked like a dump. They had carts everywhere and chain link fence lying against the <br />5