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IVSart" will temporarily occupy approximately 14 places.. We believe this to be a good site selection for several reasons. -First it is distant from the front of the other stores and out of the main. stream of traffic, both pedestrian and vehicular. If also gives the "Flower Mart" better visibility to the public without obstructing the visibility of the other neighboring businesses. Being in this portion of the lot also keeps it away from most of the traffic in the lot. TRAFFIC: . Withtegard for vehicle traffic, the "Flower Mart" is placed in the selected location in order to keep any traffic disruption to a minimum. The patio azeas at the front; side and back serve to protect the "Flower Mart" from vehicles and lets the drivers see around the garden center. The patio fence is about 4 ft high: This design has been used at our "Flower Marts" for several years and we have yet to -have; had a problem with vehicle movement: We feel that<this is a safe way to deal with vehicles: PARKING: ; . We have designed the "Flower Mart" as a single wide unit and placed it as we did within the azea -shown because we feel thatthis is the most professional design and uses the ayailablespace to its maximum potential. Cinder's has operated "Flower Marts" successfully for nineteen years in communities surrounding the Twin Cities. It has been our experience that the traffic and pazking in the lots shared by the "Flower Mart" is noYaffected considerably due to the sharing of customers. with our property. owner. We bring in many customers but they are easily handled by the. size of the -lots we occupy: We do not want to createa congestive atmosphere for our customers. The "Flower Mart" generates. business activity which varies during the business day with the. most activity occurring in late afternoon and evening. There is also business activity occurring on the,.. weekends with the most on Saturdays. Having-done this type of operation for nineteen years it ..would be safe to say that the average amount in the "Flower Mart" aYany one time is about five to - six customers. The. maximum amount of customers may be up to ten.:There are certainly times , when special sales occur that higher levels of activity may occur, but we have never seen so much that a problem has occurred in relation to the amount of cazs or pedestrian traffic. THE "FLOWER MART": The "Flower Mart" itself is 72 ft long, 21 ft wide; and 12 ft high; There aze patio/display areas in . the,front,,side and rear of the "Flower Mart". The entire size shown on the drawing included. The "Flower Mart" itself is a high quality greenhouse structure which sits on the pavement and is .held down. with an internal system which uses water for ballast. It is a commercially made unit which is manufactured. by a Minnesota company (Poly-Tex, located in Castle Rock, MN). It is a' very good looking structure which we have used for many years. SIGNAGE: We will comply with the current sign requirements of the City of Elk River: ; UTILITIES::. Our only utility requirements are reasonable access to water for the plants and 110 volt electricity .which runs the cash registerand other small items in the "Flower Mart".