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Ms. Debra Bloom February 19, 1999 Page 3 We would suggest that the applicant provide a concept for parking for both the theater and Cub Foods as well as demonstrating what is left for the other tenants in the Har Mar Mall especially for special events. Both Cub Foods and the theater should have some information relative to customers and indirectly to parking demands. We do have some information and could collect additional information to make the analysis if desired. As indicated earlier, approximately 20 percent of the Cub Foods traffic will use the aisle on the east side of the Bar Mar center to reach County Road B. Thirty-five percent will use the west aisle and the Snelling Avenue intersection to the travel to the south. The remaining 45 percent will probably use the Har Mar access to Snelling A venue traveling to the north. Some of this traffic could try to utilize the east aisle and the County Road B intersection with the Har Mar entrance (State Farm Road). The reconfiguration of the building to fit the Cub Foods design and docking requirements will eliminate the service drive on the east side of the building. Instead, traffic traveling on the east side of the building will drive through an existing parking aisle which will be much less desirable than following the previously constructed roadway. This traffic will also have to cut through the parking lot or follow the roadway immediately adjacent to the building to reach the State Farm road traffic signal intersection on County Road B. This will require some changes to the channelizing islands at the east edge of the Har Mar center. The applicant should provide a design for this travel route. There is also some concern over the high volume of traffic coming from Cub Foods in the evening hours traveling past the front entrance to the theaters. This will put a considerable amount of traffic at the intersection of the north-south aisle on the west side of Har Mar Mall with the entrance road which leads to the Cub Foods site. With additional conflicts coming from parking aisles for the Ground Round, the additional Cub Foods traffic at the prime business times for both the Ground Round and the theater will add to the congestion in the entrance road. A final concern is the loading docks and the routes which trucks must use to reach the dock area. The docks are on the east side of the proposed Cub Foods building and trucks will have to travel past the eas[ face of the Har Mar Mall ill traveling to or from the dock area. While physically the movements can be made, this puts all of the truck traffic in front of the doors used by pedestrians who park on the east side of the buildings. The turns to be made at the comers in the driveway will also be somewhat tight although they should encounter little traffic near the south end of the east parking lot. The trucks will also have to maneuver in the front of the Cub Foods building to reach the south facing docks. With 20 percent of the Cub traffic using the east aisle to reach County Road B, the trucks and this traffic will also be in conflict. It appears that the trucks traveling to or from the east docks will also have to travel on the entrance road to or from Snelling A venue. There is an opportunity for them to use the road around the outside of the Cub Foods parking lot and the west parking aisle as opposed to traveling in front of the front door of the Cub Foods building. However, virtually every truck traveling to Cub Foods and using the dock will have to use the Snelling A venue access point either entering or exiting. This will again add to the congestion along this roadway.