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Mart" 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. It 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:. With regard for vehicle traffic, the "Flower Mart" is placed in the selected location in order to keep any traffic`disruption to a minimum. The patio areas 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 area shown because we feel that this is the most professional design and .uses the available. space. to its maximum potential. Cinder's has operated "Flower Marts" successfully for twenty-years in' communities surrounding the Twin Cities: It has been our experience that the traffic. an_ d parking in .the lots shared by the "Flower Mart" is not affected 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.create a congestive atmosphere far our customers.. The "Flower Mart".generates"business activity which varies duringthe 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 twenty years it would be safe to say that the average: amount in the "Flower Mart" at any one time is about five to six customers. The maximum amount of customers maybe 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 cars or pedestrian.traffic. THE "FLOWER MART". The "Flower Mart" itself is 72 ft long, 21 ft wide,. and 12 ft high. There are patio/display areas in ~I 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 thecurrent 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 register and other small itemsin the "Flower Mart".