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� 3/17/2006 The 143-room hotel is near the County Road C exit and entrance ramps to Interstate 35W. Excellent visibility is available from the freeway to the hotel location. For this reason, it is one of the premiere hotel freeway locations in the metropolitan area. The proposed use north of the site is a 81,000 square foot retail use and its accompanying parking. South of the site across Twin lakes Parkway is a proposed retail, office and restaurant facility with surface and underground parking. The proposed north retail site brings their parking lot up to the edge of the hotel site. We propose to match our parking with retail parking resulting a more efficient use of the land for both parties. The two-story retail office restaurant south of Twin Lakes Parkway is complemented with the location of this multi story hotel/ restaurant north of the parkway. The hotel is located to mirror and to create the urban entrance feeling along Twin Lakes Parkway as is accomplished by the existing PUD. This is accomplished by putting the hotel parking north of the hotel and creating an urban entrance south of the hotel. The height difference is mitigated by the large urban pedestrian plaza connected to the public sidewalk in front of the hotel and the building setback. This use and its design makes a much more appealing entrance along the Parkway then the previous PUD. General Location of the existing street and Twin Lakes Parkway are shown on the attached drawings: Twin Lakes Parkway is proposed to be a B minor arterial/ collector3. The location of the Twin Lakes Parkway is shown on the attached plans and conforms to the location in the City's Master Plan and in the approved PUD. Access to the Parkway is gained, as it is in the existing PUD, east of the hotel. 2. Cleveland Ave borders the site on the west. "Cleveland Avenue (County State Aid Highway 48), a four-lane undivided north-south arterial at the western end of the study area. Current traffic volumes range from 7,500 to 9,100 ADT".4 Cleveland Avenue is the east frontage road of I 35W. A"right in- right out" is proposed for this site 290 feet north of the intersection of Cleveland Ave and the proposed Twin Lakes Parkway. Although this "right in- right out" is optional and subject to County approval, it would help but is not necessary for internal circulation. Common and Public Open Space: 3 Comprehensive Plan Twin Lakes Master Plan 4 AUAR April 17,2001 0