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Page 5 POLICE 1. Traffic Safety: 2. On-Street Parking: 3, Site Security: Adequate None Adequate STAFF COMMENTS The proposed day care facility complies with the standards of the B-1 district and the City's Parking requirements. A day care facility is also identified in the Comprehensive Plan, Neighborhood Five, as being one of the commercial uses which may be appropriate for the subject site. The proposed day care facility would face Silver Lake Road and have an off street parking area located in front. A wetland area which currently exists on site would be mitigated or reshaped to occupy a large portion ofthe 58 foot front yard setback area located between the proposed parking lot and Silver Lake Road. This wetland area is protected and must be allowed to exist in it's natural state. The proposed day care site would have three separate outdoor play areas which would be located between the proposed building and the adjacent residential lot lines. These play areas would be buffered from the adjacent residential properties by a coniferous and deciduous landscape screen being 25 feet in width and running the entire length ofthe west and north property lines. Adjacent residents have reviewed these plans in my office and indicated the landscape screen was impressive. The residents I have spoken to are also concerned over light reflecting onto their properties from the light standards proposed. The applicant is proposing three 30 foot high light standards with shoe box style fixtures and sodium lighting. These fixtures could be equipped with blinders if a light reflection problem occurs. The County has given the applicant preliminary approval of the proposed curb cut on Silver Lake Road for the proposed access drive. It is anticipated the County will formally approve the curb cut. The only comment the County had was that they were pleased to see the curb cut was not located across from the median break. The proposed curb cut location would not allow traffic traveling north on Silver Lake Road to cross over the south bound lane into the access road. It would be a right in and right out traffic pattern. The proposed access road would eventually be extended south across the remaining vacant piece of commercial land to County Road E. This arrangement would allow north bound traffic on Silver Lake Road to access the site from County Road E. The proposed minor subdivision would simply split the day care site off from the remaining three plus acre commercial property which remains vacant to the south. The Planning Commission is not being asked to hold a public hearing on the lot split. Since that particular application was late, a public hearing notice could not be published in time for the Planning Commission meeting. Instead, the public hearing was scheduled one week later with the City Council on October 24, 1995. 1:ICOMMDEVlCDlCCRIERNY\5-LP-306.WPD