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INTRODUCTION Traffic Planning and Design, Inc. (TPD) has prepared this Traffic Statement to support the application to West Orange Township for the reoccupancy of an existing garden center, located within a shopping center, with retail space. The site is located is located in the northeast quadrant of the signalized intersection of Mount Pleasant Avenue (NJSH Route 10) and Pleasant Valley Way (CR 636), not including the corner lot, as shown on Figure 1 in the Appendix, with additional frontage along Mount Pleasant Avenue. CURRENT CONDITION The approximately 3.7-acre property in question is occupied by the approximately 32,441 square foot Mount Pleasant Plaza shopping center. The South Branch of the Rahway River runs along the northerly and westerly sides of the property. The center consists of the main, approximately 29,187 square foot, building, including a 1,522 square foot mezzanine, and a smaller building of approximately 3,254 square feet. An approximately 3,200 square foot area in the main building is occupied by Julio's Restaurant while the smaller building is occupied by Bagels by Jarrett/The Slice Shop. Approximately 16,367 square feet on the westerly side of the larger building, including the 1,522 square-foot mezzanine, were, until recently, occupied by the Metropolitan Plant Exchange garden center. Approximately 2,400 square feet of the building, adjacent to the former garden center, were formerly occupied by a No Limits Martial Arts studio. The garden center additionally occupied an approximately 8,980 square foot canopy-roofed and unenclosed sales area on the site, abutting the main building on its westerly side. For the purpose of traffic calculations in this report, and consistent with Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Proposed Retail Store, West Orange, New Jersey -1-