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November 22, 2004 Page 3 I appreciate the groups concerns and welcome any comments on our overall development. In specific response to the concerns over the road design and traffic counts for the development, I offer the following comments. The road design was very carefully thought through and represents an overall design which accommodates the best of safety, throughput, efficiency, aesthetics, practicality and affordability. As it relates to traffic counts, there was a very extensive traffic study completed by SRF Consultants dated January 2,2004. The report was also recently updated on October 22,2004, with the change in square footage of the USBank building. The original report and the updated report both show the design of the roadway system to meet or exceed all required levels as it relates to trip ~eneration estimates and peak hour capacities for the intersections at I 97th and 169, 197' and Holt/Irving, 193rd and 169, and 194th and Holt, and Jackson and Holt Street. Following the Mayors and council members lead from Monday night's council meeting, I agree with them that the current design is quite adequate as designed, and now built, and will function to serve the needs of the residents, businesses, and business customers of both the Brentwood Addition and Elk Ridge Center. I would like to offer to you and the other BOU residents that if you have any other general development questions please feel free to call me or send me an email or fax. We want to keep you informed as best we can during the entire project and want you to feel like we are enhancing OUR community with this project. B. Landscaping Problems. BOU is concerned with the proposed landscaping plan for the US Bank site. The landscaping plan attached to Chris Leeseberg's November 15, 2004 memorandum calls for a 2 Yz" maple every 40' along I 97th Avenue. This is inadequate. The boulevard between the proposed US Bank site and I 97th is the primary area dividing the Brentwood neighborhood from the US Bank development. Mature arborvitae line 197th A venue on the other side of the street. Similar trees along the US Bank site boulevard would better blend with the neighborhood while at the same time shielding the neighbors from the site. In order to fit into the neighborhood and to shield the neighborhood from traffic, noise, light and headlights emanating from the US Bank site, mature and more densely planted evergreen-type trees or a raised and tasteful wall are needed. The Council may condition its approval of this CUP with requirements relating to "fencing, screening landscaping or other facilities to protect adjacent or nearby property." (Elk River City Code 9 30-655 (5).) In order to shield the Brentwood neighborhood from