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<br />. <br /> <br />250 seat restaurant <br />65 unit motel <br />225 seat restaurant <br /> <br />According to the Environmental assessment Worksheet submitted for this <br />project there is approximately 404,200 square feet of commercial retail and <br />office space. The developable acreage on this project is 60.9 acres; the <br />resulting density is 6637 square feet per acre. For a comparison, Elk Park <br />Center has 374,000 square feet on approximately 50 acres for a density of <br />7480 square feet per acre. <br /> <br />Parking. Access and Streets <br /> <br />There will be 989 parking spaces included on the Walmart site and 741 <br />spaces on the home improvement store site. Parking for the freestanding <br />sites will be reviewed when development plans are proposed. Adequate <br />parking is being provided for the two big box retailers. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Access into the site is proposed from 3 locations. Main entrances are proposed <br />from Main Street and Tyler Street. A secondary access is also proposed from <br />Tyler Street; this will be a right in and right out only located in the rear of <br />the proposed home improvement store. The development plans show a shared <br />driveway for the two lots closest to Main Street. <br /> <br />A city street, Crossing Avenue, is proposed to extend from Main Street about <br />1000 feet into the site. Access from six of the freestanding sites will be <br />provided from this street. Crossing Avenue is proposed to be a private drive <br />through the site in front of the two big box stores then become a city street <br />again for about 1000 feet to the Tyler Street entrance. The applicant has <br />indicated the appearance of Crossing Avenue will not change when the street <br />changes from pubic to private and back to public again. <br /> <br />The Planning Commission had some concerns regarding traffic flow and <br />people using the drive as a short cut. They felt if it was a city street, it should <br />be a city street all the way through the project and access points into the <br />Walmart and home improvement store sites should be limited. The other <br />option would be to have Crossing Avenue be a private drive all the way <br />through the project from Main Street to Tyler. Access to the street, if it were <br />private, could also be limited. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Concerns raised by the Police Department regarding the private street option <br />include enforcing traffic laws. Typically the Police Department does not <br />enforce traffic and parking laws on private property. Since the street will <br />function as a public street in that it will provide public access to the <br />individual lots and will be used by some as a connection between Main Street <br />