Engineer PC Update 6-29-04
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MEMORANDUM
TO:
Bob Generous, Senior Planner
FROM:
Matt Saam, Assistant City Engineer lM..,0
DATE:
June 29,2004
SUBJ:
Planning Commission Update for CVS Pharmacy
Land Use Review File No. 04-06
At the June 15,2004 Planning Commission (PC) meeting, the PC tabled action on
this item due to some concerns over the parking and drive-thru layout. Since
then, the applicant has submitted revised plans to address the concerns. Each of
the issues is looked at in more detail below:
1.
Location of western drive-aisle access.
Since the original submittal, the applicant has had the site resurveyed. With the
new survey, the applicant discovered that their property line was incorrectly
shown on the previous drawing. This, in turn, affected how close their proposed
access was to Galpin Boulevard. The net result is that the new proposed access
location is 70+ feet from the curb line of Galpin Boulevard compared with 42-feet
previously.
Staff did personally speak to Carver County on the proposed access locations to
this site and their proximity to Galpin Boulevard, a Carver County road. The
County had no issues with the access locations since the overall development
access points to Galpin Boulevard and W. 78th Street already exist.
Staff believes the new access location works well from a traffic circulation
standpoint. Moving this access even farther to the east could begin to cause
conflicts with traffic entering/exiting the existing Kwik Trip site to the north.
2. Location of Pharmacy Drive-thru.
At the June 18,2004 meeting, many of the Commissioners suggested moving the
drive-thru to the east side of the proposed building. While the applicant has not
changed the location of the drive-thru, the parking lot and drive aisle layout has
been revised. Staff believes that these revisions provide a better functioning
layout from a circulation standpoint than the previous submittal.
The new layout provides space for up to three cars to be in the drive-thru queue
without interrupting the traffic circulation of the drive aisle. On the previous
submittal, no more than one car could be in the drive-thru without conflicting with
the drive aisle traffic. The new layout also provides more opportunity for green
space and landscaping on the north side of the building than the previous
submittal.
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The only potential conflict point with the new d11ve-thru location is when traffic
from the south parking lot has to make a left turn across the southbound traffic
lane. Due to a lack of heavy traffic on the site, however, this left-turn movement
should operate in a free flow manner a majority of the time.
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c: Paul Oehme, City Engineer/Dir. of Public Works
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