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JUN 04 '93 11:07 ERN INC. P.3 • Steve Rohlf June 4, 1993 Page 2 affirm or disprove this. Mn/DOT will have to approve the location and the design of the intersection along Highway 169. There are five secondary intersections along Jackson Road, and approximately three more are possible with the development of the remaining land parcels. Two of them align with Highland Road and 191st Lane, which is good from the point of view of traffic safety but it also allows views from those two streets into the loading areas and the rear of the buildings. The design of the intersection opposite Highland Road is skewed to intercept some of this view. The driveways to Building A and Cub Foods should be combined at a point midway between Highland and 191st Avenues. The access to the shared driveway for Wal-Mart and Menard's should be moved to the south to increase the offset from 191st Avenue. • Internal Circulation Roadways within the site are properly designed and offer a relatively safe and understandable progression from the entries to the parking spaces. Intersections are properly spaced or aligned. Parking Supply Overall, the parking supply is lower than what major retailers usually demand. The supply is probably adequate near the north end of the site but inadequate at the south end. However, the supply meets or exceeds the City's requirements, which are probably low. The plan provides 5.05 spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area for buildings A-E plus the three majors tenants. Cub and Wal-Mart have 5.9 spaces per thousand in front of them. Menard's and Building,E share a parking area that supplies only 3.4 spaces per 1,000 square feet of floor area, which is far below what is normally • supplied, and which I feel is inadequate. Stores such as Cub Foods and Wal Mart typically want 7 or 8 spaces per 1,000 square feet, and Menard's usually wants about 5 spaces per 1,000 square feet. Some of the parking for the Payless Shoes store would have to occur in the remote part of the parking for the southerly retail building.