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Ill. Head-in parking along east edge of existing retail building. As shown in Figure I, the current site plan includes head-in parking along the east edge of the existing retail building. Based on our review, we believe that the head-in parking will provide satisfactory and safe operations within the site for the following reasons: o Reduces number of pedestrians that have to cross the drive aisle in front of the building, o Safer for handicap motorists as they do not have to cross the drive aisle, o Better alignment ofthe drive aisle with the driveway on County Road E. o Head-in parking is not unconunon for similar neighborhood retail centers. IV, Drive-through queuingfor proposed pharmacy. The current site plan shows a stacking distance of approximately 80 feet for drive-through queuing, This stacking distance can accommodate a total of four vehicles in the drive-through queue, To determine if this space is sufficient to accommodate the expected drive-through queuing for the pharmacy, we obtained data collected at six other pharmacies (all Walgreens stores) in the Twin Cities Metropolitan area. All ofthose six pharmacies have two drive-through windows, whereas the proposed pharmacy will only have one drive-through window. At one of the six pharmacies, the maximwn drive-through queue was one vehicle, At two of the pharmacies, the maximum queue was two vehicles. At the remaining three phannacies, the maximum queue was three vehicles, Since the proposed pharmacy will provide space for four vehicles, we are confident that the drive-through queuing for the pharmacy will adequately be acconunodated. The current site plan provides 90-degree parking with two-way circulation just west of the pharmacy drive-through, This arrangement creates a northbound lane "sandwiched" between two southbound lanes ~ one for the phannacy drive-through and the other for the parking aisle. To mitigate this problem, we recommend that the 90-degree parking be converted to angle parking with one-way circulation in the southbound direction. v. Spacing between County Road E andfirst access serving pharmacy drive-through and parking. The current site plan includes an access for the pharmacy drive-through and parking on the County Road E driveway at approximately 60 feet (clear separation) south of County Road E. This distance can only accommodate two to three vehicles entering the site. At peak times, northbound queues due to motorists exiting the site are expected to extend past the access for the pharmacy, As a result, when the exiting queues block the pharmacy access, the entering motorists waiting to turn left onto the pharmacy access will stop and block other traffic from entering the site. This situation could result in vehicles backing up to County Road E, To prevent such queue backups onto County Road E, we reconunend that a median be constructed on the site driveway as shown in Figure 4, The reconunended changes shown in Figure 4 will restrict motorists entering from County Road E from turning left at the first access to the pharmacy drive-through and parking, 16