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widths. I do believe that the loading situation will work. I have attached a sketch of some minor improvements for consideration in this main entrance/cxit area. • With regard to parking supply for the site, here is another way of calculating the potential parking supply required. This method uses square feet of gross leasable area. This method assumes gU of the space is leasable Retail - S spaces per 1.000 SFLGA Bank - S spaces per 1.000 SFGLA Office - 5 spaces per 1.000 SFGLA The totals then become; Pharmacy = 14.820 x S per 1.000 SFGLA = 72 spaces Retail/Office = 10.000 x 5 per 1.000 SFGLA = 50 spaces Bank = 5.000 x 5 per 1.000 SFGLA = 25 spaces The total required parking equals 147 spaces. This is less than the City required parking. The parking demand is based on average rates for a variety of retail and/or office type tenants. There are certain types of retail tenants that generate les parking than othm. For example a retail store selling lamp shades/lighling fixtures could be expected to generate less parking demand than a video store. If part of the retail on this site includes a coffee shop, than the demand may exceed 5 spaces per 1.000 SPCLA at certain times of the day or day of the week. The same holds true with small office tenants. Some types of office users generate more demand than others A review of the site plan indicates that we feel that the pharmacy/office-retail parcels on the south side of the site will have sufficient parking. Those uses contain a total of 117 spaces which includes the 10 employee spaces on the north side of the office relail building. This is a ratio of 4.7 spaces per 1.000 SFGLA which is 7 spaces less than the suggested 5 spaces per l.OOO SFGLA. I think this area will be all right since pharmacy stores 1 have observed never seem to have a shortage of parking. The land use in the NE comer of the site presents an interesting quandary. The retail concept of 5.000 SF has 29 spaces of which 19 are in front and 10 are in back. The total satisfies a 5.0 parking ratio but it can be expected that there will be times when the front lot fills up. Deperuling on the retail user, this could happen frequently. The bank concept shows 10 spaces on the west side of the building and 11 spaces on the east side. This is a ratio of 4.2 spaces per 1.000 SFGLA. I am concerned that the parking will be inadequate for bank demand purposes. If you have any questions concerning the above, please don't hesitate to contact me cc: Tom Kellogg 2335 W9Bt Highway 36 • St. Paul. MN 55113 • 651-636-4600 • Fax: 651-636-1311 1