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Mr. Jay Kennedy August 7, 1996 Page 2 circulating in this area. The disadvantage is that there is little likelihood of an open parking stall in the east aisles. The site plan shows plantings along the south edge of the plaza area in front of the library entrance. These plantings are approximately 50 feet in length from the building to the west. They are across an existing crosswalk which lines up the entrance to the library with one of the parking islands. The crosswalk will be relocated from this spot to one in line with a parking aisle further to the west of the plantings. If this is done, pedestrians will not be crossing through the backup of traffic at the drive-up coffee shop location. If the plantings are not inplace or pedestrians can cut through them, we anticipate that the pedestrians will also walk between the stopped vehicles in the coffee drive-up line. By placing the island of plantings in the plaza, the convenience of the second and third parking aisles is lessened. This will place more of the library traffic in the west parking aisle. This. in turn, will cut down on the traffic in front of the entrance to the drive-thru coffee area. There will be some congestion in the area of the new pedestrian crosswalk. At that point, traffic destined for the drive-up window will have to make a left hand maneuver to get into the parking lot behind the drive-up window. At the same spot, there will be eastbound traffic desiring to reach library parking spaces, westbound traffic from the library parking spaces and pedestrians crossing. This is a better alternative then if pedestrians maintain their existing crossing, but still the source of a number of conflicts. , Final traffic consideration is that much of the traffic leaving the coffee drive-up aisle will have to use the far east aisle in the parking lot. This will tend to place more traffic at the County Road B entrance and create a few more conflicts between traffic turning right from westbound County Road B and that traffic traveling west in the aisle. This may not create sight line problems since the front parking appears to be seldom used. Drive-up traffic desiring to reach Hamlinc A venue will be forced to either cut through the parking area or drive around the east, south and west parking aisles. In summary, we feel that there is adequate storage for the drive-up location if the 50 feet ofplantings and some type of pedestrian barrier is provided. We also anticipate that the use of the book return in the drive-thro lane will diminish significantly and that there will be increased illegal parking with a walk over to the book return. This should not Create much of a traffic problem. - .