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"'SeJ 3535 VADNAIS CENTER DRIVE. 200 SEH CENTER, ST. PAUL, MN 55110 612490-2000 800325-2055 ARCHITECTURE ENGINEERING ENVIRONMENTAL TRANSPORTATION October 4, 1995 RE: Roseville, Minnesota Outpost Java County Road B and Target Access SEH No. A-ROSEV9402.00 Mr. Mike Falk City Planner City of Roseville 2660 Civic Center Drive Roseville, MN 55113 Dear Mike: As you requested, we have reviewed the existing site plan of the portion of the Target parking area where Outpost Java is proposed. The site is located in the southwest portion of the Target parking lot near the comer of County Road B and the main entrance to Target. This is the first intersection east of Snelling Avenue on County Road B. I also visited the site to get a more complete understanding of the likely entrance and exit patterns during the morning peak hour, when we expect the heaviest use of the business. We have provided three sketches which show various arrangements of the building, traffic flow and parking which could be considered. Based on input from the developer on a similar facility in Apple Valley, Outpost Java is expected to serve approximately 300 customers (vehicles) per day. This results in a trip generation of approximately 600 trips counting the trip in and the trip out. We believe that the 600 trips per day is reasonable, based on comparisons of this facility with other larger drive through operations. We expect a large share of the trips will occur during the morning and early afternoon hours. If most of the 300 trips per day are between 7:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m., there would be an average of approximately 40 or less vehicles per hour. We estimate that approximately two-thirds of the trips entering the site will enter off eastbound County Road B to the northbound drive-aisle serving Target, the Wave Car Wash, Perkins, etc. These vehicles will be most likely to enter the southbound Outpost Java drive through lane. Based on the assumptions of 40 vehicles per hour and two-thirds entering via the first drive aisle east of Snelling A venue, approximately 26 vehicles per hour would enter from this direction. This is an average arrival rate of approximately one vehicle every 2.3 minutes. We know that there will often be more than one vehicle arriving from this direction at a time, due to the platooning of vehicles at the Snelling Avenue and County Road B intersection. However, we estimate that there would seldom be more than three to four vehicles queued up waiting to access the drive through at any given time. If drivers see that the queue is longer than this, they may decide it will be faster to get coffee "to go" at one of the other coffee and bakery stores in the vicinity, such as Perkins, SHORT ELLIOTT HENDRICKSON INC. MINNEAPOLIS, MN ST CLOUD, MN CHIPPEWA FALLS. WI MADISON, WI LAKE COUNTY, IN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER