| Mr. Breuckman stated that the difference between a B-3 and a B-2 was |
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| partially art and partially science. There were three kinds of development |
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| uses in the B-3 districts. There were auto dealerships, large box stores |
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| and power centers. The key characteristic for those was the fact that when |
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| someone saw the building, it was oriented wide to the street. Depending |
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| on whether there were one, two, three or four rows of parking in front, the |
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| building would be filling most of the frontage relative to the street. That |
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| created a unified development. It was true that some centers had outlots, |
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| but behind the outlots, there were always the buildings with the wide |
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| frontage relative to the street which created a coherence in the B-3 district. |
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| What were not in the B-3 district were lots of separate buildings that were |
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| turned with a long dimension perpendicular to the street. That was a |
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| relationship to the street that was found in the B-2 district. There might be |
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| several separate parcels that had narrower frontages and perhaps |
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| drive-throughs lined up next to each other. The percentage of the |
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| building that faced the street was much lower than in the B-3 district. That |
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| was the fundamental difference between B-2 and B-3. The plans |
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| previously were for a B-2 development, because the buildings were all |
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| perpendicular to the street and the drive-throughs were separate |
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| ownerships. The McDonald’s had a completely different layout than the |
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| rest of the site. He agreed with Mr. Anzek that the new plans were a |
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| definite evolution towards something that could be compatible in the B-3 |
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| district. They were not there yet, but it was a definite evolution. On |
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| Rochester Rd. now, they would be building the relationship of wide and |
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| facing the street. Creating that situation with a higher percentage of |
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| building width frontage facing the street could be accomplished. They |
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| could take Building C and rotate it so the long end faced the street. There |
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| were six separate circulation aisles that ran perpendicular to Auburn: |
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| There were aisles on the west and east sides of Building C; on the east |
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| and west sides of McDonald’s; and both in front of and behind Building A. |
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| He felt that there was an opportunity for McDonald’s, which would require |
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| some flexibility, not to change its building or how it was oriented, to |
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| change how the site laid out around its building. The fundamental |
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| drive-through layout did not have to change, but perhaps changing the |
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| parking rows and the circulation aisles to combine some or make better |
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| use of some would allow a different relationship with a more consistent |
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