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Ms. Debra Bloom February 19, 1999 Page 2 With this general distribution of customers in the area, we anticipate that approximately 20 percent of the traffic will come from the east on County Road B, approximately 45 percent from the north on Snelling A venue, and approximately 35 percent from the south on Snelling A venue. Traffic to and from the north on Snelling A venue may utilize Highway 36 or several other streets, but for access considerations, the traffic will generally use the Har Mar access to Snelling A venue. Based on the distribution assumptions and on the anticipated traffic volumes, the Cub Foods will generate approximately 141 outbound trips from Har Mar onto Snelling Avenue and 147 trips from Snelling Avenue into the Har Mar entrance in the p.m. peak hour. There will be approximately 35 exiting and 37 entering trips at the County Road B access. By comparison, the Homeplace store would have generated a significantly fewer number of trips. In the p.m. peak hour, the Homeplace store, using a typical shopping center rate, would generate approximately 200 to 210 trips in the p.m. peak hour. We would anticipate that approximately 20 to 25 percent of the trips generated by the Homeplace store were part of a multi-purpose trip to the Har Mar development. The net result for the Homeplace development is a generation of approximately 155 new trips at the Har Mar entrances compared to approximately 360 trips for the proposed Cub Foods store. Thus, there would be a net increase of approximately 200 vehicle trips in the p.m. peak hour. On a daily basis, we anticipate the same percentage increase. We have also done a brief review of the parking without doing a detailed parking study. The Cub Foods proposal indicates over 650 parking spaces south of the store and approximately 75 to the west. Based on observations of Cub Food Stores in a number of locations, it appears that this number would be sufficient for Cub at their peak times. We also recognize that Cub Foods has been very careful to make certain that they have adequate parking for their customers. We are concerned with the competition for parking in the area. There is very limited parking on the east side of the Cub Foods store and limited parking on the west side. The west side also has some high parking demands from the Ground Round restaurant and from the Har Mar Theater. Prime time for the thearer operation is Friday night, Saturday afternoon and Saturday evening, depending upon the movies shown. This coincides with the heavy Cub Food shopping periods on Friday evenings and Saturdays. Thus there will be competition for parking places on the west side of the proposed Cub Foods parking lot. In an analysis for a similar shopping center, consideration was given to the fact that some patrons of the theater will park in other parking areas and will walk through the shopping center to the theater. Thus there is an opportunity for the theater patrons to park in the northeast or west parking areas. This however puts the parking demands of the theater in competition with the parking requirements and demands for the remaining stores in the Har Mar center. Har Mar Mall is well known for craft shows and similar events which bring significantly higher traffic volumes to the mall. The increased volumes and parking used by the exhibitors has taken up a substantial portion of the south lot in the past. -------- -----------------------