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THE LINCOLN COMPANIES, CASE 1675 Page 3 8. The proposed structure, as indicated in the applicant's development description and drawings, will be of a brick shopping center on all sides. It appears that the architecture for the center is unique and appropriate to the site. It would appear that the development of a strong retail center with a prominent "high end" food store as the anchor could establish the easterly end of a mixed retail district that might ultimately extend from Snelling Avenue to Cleveland Avenue (a distance of one mile). We see this as a natural, economically viable, and functional transi. ion from a predominately truci: terminal -oriented use to a consumer -oriented function, representing a positive influence on the overall development of the City. 9. In summary, this application is for the approval of a change in the land use plan from Industrial to Business, a rezoning from I-1 to B-4, an approval of the preliminary plat, and a special use permit for site plan approval of the proposed development. The preliminary plat will divide the original property into two parcels, connected by a 60 foot wide public street, to be dedicated from the west end of the public street acquired by the City north of Midway Ford, south to County Road C. The approval of the Preliminary Plat should be made subject to right-of-way adjustments as may be deemed necessary by staff due to the review of the preferred alternative alignment and intersection, of the existing frontage road and the proposed public street. 10. The special use permit for site plan approval could be conditioned upon the appropriate revisions required by the possible alternative geometric designs of the intersection of the two public streets north of County Road C, engineering considerations, and final landscape details. The site plan approval could be conditioned upon the development of the property as indicated upon site planning, landscaping, drainage, and building plans, as Illustrated on drawings dated as submitted. Each of the seven drawings submitted have different dates, an easement can be recorded by staff as the current drawings approved at a dated Planning Commission or Council meeting. 11. The comments regarding the alternative alignments with the service roads (existing and proposed) will be made at the Planning Commission hearing. In the opinion of the staff, the alignment as proposed, which anticipates the retention of the existing service road as constructed, will work. If better geometric designs can be cooperatively evolved, this will not materially impact upon the development of the center basically as proposed.