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impediment to traffic visibility. The City's "visibility triangle" says that no over story planting should occur in a triangular area 30 ft. back from the property comer along both rights-of-way. The other area of concern relates to the interface with the property to the east. Should the sale of the Borgstrom property not come to ftuition a much stronger screening strategy will nee4 to be incorporated into the plan. The Borgstom residence is quite close to the east property line of this proposed project. As indicated earlier the 23 proposed.units are aU single story units. The 2 units in the Southeasterly comer of the project will be walk-out units in order to accommodate grade changes in this location. Of the 2004 sq. ft. in each uni~ 1544 sq. ft. is living area, and 460 sq. ft. is garage. A copy of the building elevation and the floor plan is included with the plan review package. As currently presented the exterior materials are proposed to be prefinished metal siding. The developer has indicated that if budgets pennit some brick may be added to the front elevation The grading and utility plan has been submitted with this application. Engineering staff has review these plans and have raised some concerns in a following section of this report. Of particular importance is the fact that this design is proposing no on-site storage of surface water but rather would -collect surface water in a storm sewer system that would move the water to a regional storm water facility east of Dale Street. While a regional storm water facility to handle aU development in this areas should be seriously studied and considered one does not exist at this time. It should also be noted that the plan to move storm water relies on a storm sewer pipe moving across City park land. . .. During the public hearings on the proposed amendment to the Comprehensive Land Use Guide Plan questions were raised about traffic that would be generated by this or similar proposals. Townhouses typically generate 6 to 7 trips a day. With 23 units this would amount to 140 -160 trips per day being generated from this site. If the Borgstrom piece was added to the development it is anticipated that 7 more units could be developed. This would increase the average daily trips to and from the site to 180 - 210 trips . per day. 1991 traffic counts indicate ~t County Road C currently has average daily traffic of 8800 and Dale Street south of County Road C has a average daily traffic of 5950. Both Dale Street and County Road C have the capacity to handle the added traffic that would be generated by this proposed