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58 WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 14, 1977 are water run-off, as it affects health and other people's property; traffic, as it affects safety; the effect of the rezoning on values of adjoining or abutting property; and the highest and best use of the subject property. Opponents to the petition claim that the water run-off caused by the proposed development will cause severe drainage problems in the back and front yards of many of the residents on Indian Trail. City Engineers studied the drainage structure of the area. George Brown states that no backyards will be affected by the water run-off from the subject property because all of this water will flow into the hollow at Indian Trail and Spruce Street and down through the pipes paralleling Indial Trail. All of the water currently running into the backyards of Indian Trail residents comes from Parkview; none of it comes from Spruce Street. City Engineers measured the total drainage area, calculated the slope of the land, and measured the pipe size necessary to handle a 3" rain per hour. Mr. Brown says that in the last 26 years, the heaviest rainfall the City experienced was Hurricane Hazel in 1954 when rainfall reached 2.8" per hour. According to Mr. Brown, the City Engineers calculate that the proposed store building and paved area will cause the net discharge run-off to increase no more, and probably less, than 3%, and the current pipe sizes of the affected Indian Trail front yards, ranging from 36" to 54", are adequate to handle a rainfall of 3" per hour. Mr. Noland states that these measuring standards have been used effectively throughout the City for years. Opponents to the petition claim that the resulting traffic will be a safety hazard. Mr. King of King's stated to Mr. McGhee that he expects 10,000 vehicles per week, or about 1500 vehicles per day. Mr. McGhee feels that traffic will not increase by 1500 vehicles per day as possibly 3/4ths of the vehicles will travel these roads anyway, regardless of whether or not a grocery store is built' in fact, Mr. McGhee thinks that if a new grocery store opens there will be no increase in present Spruce Street traffic counts once Brookdale Road opens. Mr. McGhee, Mr. Brown and Mr. Noland agree that, even if traffic increases 1500 cars per day, the streets can safely handle the increase, and improvements are planned in streets, sidewalks, traffic lights and turning lanes. In 1961, the Planning Commission and Council voted to zone commercial practically all of the property between Indian Trail and Parkview fronting Spruce Street, after both bodies listened to evidence presented in lengthy public hearings. The Planning Commission minutes contain a map which Lanier Farm submitted at that time which shows a 30,000 square-foot store on the property. The Planning Commission recommended the 1961 zoning to Council for two reasons: "(1) There was a definite need for additional business zoning in the area and (2) that the property in question was not suitable for residential development." _'".__"ft~._~,.~,",~_'_"U_,____-...,,____~..'H_"-"--'--