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which runs roughly parallel to Cherry, McCaslin, and Dillon Road, accessing all of the out parcels from that roadway. He stated that there will be three monument signs that will identify the Center and the large anchors at Dillon Road, McCaslin median break, and at the existing Cherry Street median. They will be a maximum of 14 ft. high. Each of the lot owners of pads 3 - 9 around the outside of the center will also have a yard sign with a maximum height of 6'h x 8'w. Davidson called for Council comments and questions. Howard was concerned about the traffic build-up and he wondered if it would be exacerbated by the combination of this development and the proposed development across the street (movie theatre). He did not want a "sea" of asphalt in the area. He stated that some of the nearby business had concerns about the impact of this Center upon their businesses. Also, he wondered if the proposed lighting would be a problem for the nearby residents. Shonkwiler explained that they are not going to attract the amount of traffic that a million s.f. mall would have attracted. They designed and built the interchange, McCaslin Boulevard, Cherry Street, and Dillon Road to be able to accommodate that traffic. He stated that, since this is at the southwest corner of Louisville, and traffic won't have to drive through Louisville to get from U.S. 36 to the project. Because of the widths of the rights-of-way in Centennial Valley and the roads that they have created, they can get a very substantial amount of landscaping between the back of the curb and the lot line, which will be increased by the setbacks and the building landscape. He stated that there will be a greater increase in deciduous trees, because deciduous trees loose their leaves in the wintertime and don't cause the icing and slipperiness. A deciduous tree's branching and leaf structure start up high enough from the ground offering visibility for the retailers. Homart's design will provide six parking spaces per 1,000 s.f. of retail use and even more stringent, when it comes to restaurants. Shonkwiler stated that Louisville's ordinances concerning lighting preclude any offside leakage of lighting from the site. Mayer wondered about the possibility of some sort of landscaping rows to provide some trees to break up the parking lot and pedestrian corridors. In terms of interior traffic circulation, just past Lots 5 and 6, with a lot of traffic coming in, he wasn't sure how the traffic circulating back out is going to be able to get out, make left hand turns. Shonkwiler: You're right, 5 and 6 are lots we'll look at extraordinarily closely. The access road will have absolutely no access off of it. We will keep 6