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hub. It also serves as a remote facility for the Minnesota State Fair and major events at the John Rose Oval". 6.3 Metro Transit has 8 years remaining on their existing "exclusive use agreement" with Rosedale Center. Metro Transit does not have a permanent easement; the agreement can be bought out by Rosedale for $130,000 at any time. 6.4 The Development Review Committee (DRC) has indicated a need for the transit hub and park-and-ride lot to be incorporated into this proposal and Jones Lang LaSalle, through their consultant Parsons, has been working with Metro Transit to incorporate these two auxiliary uses. The current plan has been revised to reduce a queuing or stacking problem for Metro Transit that adds too much time to bus routing. Buses will be stacked on the southeast corner of the theatre, then routing to the main entry area and back through the parking lot. For transit to be properly addressed, the location of bus staging area and/or the travel lane to get there will have to be studied in more detail. TRAFFIC: 6.5 Development Review Committee (DRC) has reviewed the parking and traffic proposal and provided the applicant with a number of comments. The DRC initial concern is on- site parking, movement of traffic on the site, and pedestrian access to the malL The DRC requested the applicant to perform an all-encomuassinQ traffic studX (by Parsons Transportation Group) that would be reviewed by the City's traffic consultant (SEH). 6.6 The traffic report (Rosedale Center Mall Expansion Traffic Impact Study) reviewed four different scenarios. First, Parsons analyzed the 2006 & 2025 '7�T� Build" scenario, which establishes a baseline for what the background traffic would be on these roads if the expansion did not happen. Second, Parsons took a look at the 2006 & 2025 "Build" scenaria This demonstrates the impacts to the system from the proposed expansion. 6.7 The Parsons report performs a"level of service" analysis for each of the seven intersections surrounding the mall on County Road B-2 and Fairview. SEH has indicated a concern over mitigation measures being proposed that may not adequately address all of the operational issues that appear when the additional traffic is introduced onto the surrounding public street system. 6.8 The Parsons report presents a discussion of the average "level of service" for each intersection and bases their recommendations on that data. This average "level of service" treats each intersection as though it stands alone, not tied into an integrated signal system as is the case for these County Roads. Additional analysis of intersection queuing or stacking reveals that traffic from one intersection can cause operational difficulties at the next intersection along the road. As a result, additional short-term and long-term mitigation measures should be considered. 6.9 Fairview and County Road B-2 are County Roads. Trunk Highway 36 and Snelling Avenue are State Roads. The Rosedale expansion is a land use/zoning and site PF3608_RCA_GeneralConcept_122004 Page 5 of 20