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Attachment B 42 those do not have driven-throughs and do not need it in the entire interior. She 43 indicated she would support it in the whole CMU-4 District, but she did see a place for 44 it at the apex off Cleveland and 35W. She wondered if there was a way to approve a 45 drive-through for this site and may the site Mr. Paschke have talked about in front of 46 Aldi’s but not anywhere else. 47 Mr. Paschke explained the existing lots in front of Wal-Mart will not be removing any 48 berm or anything and those pads are pretty much set and building up to where it can 49 base on the existing grade and property lines. There will be little change to some of 50 those things there. If the Commission did not want it in the CMU-4 District, which 51 only impacts four properties that can develop, then the Commission would have to 52 recommend creating a separate and distinct zoning district to support that and other 53 uses. He noted that as it relates to the Dominium project, there will be a signal light 54 there and will assist in limiting the impact onto County Road C and Snelling Avenue. 55 Ms. Gundlach explained in addition to the traffic study, Mr. Paschke mentioned the 56 City updated its drive-through conditional use standards approximately a year ago and 57 there is a specific provision in those new standards that talk specifically about queuing 58 lanes being sufficient to accommodate demand including primary driving entrance, 59 exits, pedestrian walkways and not creating impacts to the surrounding roadways. 60 Even with the traffic study and Conditional Use there are multiple reasons that staff 61 could gather data to say not to a Conditional Use if the Commission chose to make this 62 change. 63 Mr. Eric Abeln, Heights Metro Architects addressed the Commission on behalf of 64 Panda Express. 65 Member McGehee thanked Mr. Abeln for his presentation. She noted she has not seen 66 any restaurants yet with a walk-up window and wondered if that is also a possibility on 67 this Panda Express Restaurant. 68 Mr. Abeln indicated a person would not be able to walk up to what is considered a 69 drive-through window. The industry and Panda Express itself, does a really good job 70 of trying to isolate and separate vehicular use from pedestrian use for safety issues. 71 There are designs in the works, but he indicated they were not far enough along in the 72 operational section for this building to provide more walk-up windows. The industry 73 has really been forced to move in that direction and those design conversations are 74 being discussed right now about how a business can have a pickup window where the 75 customer does not need to enter the restaurant and also can continue to operate on. He 76 thought the primary convenience for not only third-party delivery and first party carry 77 out option is that drive up window. 78 Public Comment 79 80 No one came forward to speak for or against this request. 81 Chair Gitzen closed the public hearing at 7:12 p.m.