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Source: Asbury Park Press, N.迷你倉J.Sept. 13--RED BANK -- Traffic was the top concern of the 30 to 40 people who came to the former Rassas Buick dealership Tuesday to see plans for a Walgreens that could replace it.Borough and neighboring Little Silver residents looked at plans and questioned architects, a traffic engineer and other experts for Walgreens in advance of a Monday hearing on the application.Attendees were allowed for the first time to review a three-dimensional, color architectural rendering of the 14,000-square-foot pharmacy. The Walgreens is proposed at the intersection of Route 35 and Broad Street, between Garfield Place and Rumson Place.Watch the video above to see the site of the proposed Walgreens."The biggest concern for a quiet neighborhood adjacent to the site is the movement of traffic in and out of the site," Monica Boccarino of Red Bank said. "It's the volume of traffic, and the fact that the store will be open 14 hours a day and will impact the neighborhood."Boccarino, a Garfield Place resident, said she's concerned that an exit from Walgreens to the street will prompt drivers to use it as a shortcut."Any traffic that wants to avoid Broad Street will go on Garfield ... to Pinckney Road," she said. "There are kids on bikes; people walk their dogs. This will compromise the neighborhood."Residents asked for a right-turn ban to Garfield Place, said John Harter, traffic engineer at Atlantic Traffic and Design Engineering Inc.Walgreens won state Department of Transportation approval to put a green lef文件倉-turn arrow on the existing traffic signal at Broad Street and Route 35 to allow southbound traffic to turn left into an entrance-only driveway, he said.Tricia Meenan of Red Bank is concerned about "the triangle where the roads converge." A developer's traffic study said most of the customers are expected to come from traffic already on the roads."They expect 400 to 700 customers a day. That's 1,400 in-and-outs. It is in fact adding traffic moving in and out of the intersection," she said. "I don't see how it cannot turn into a traffic nightmare."Residents also got their first look at a color, scale rendering of the brick pharmacy building."The main thing people asked about is the scale of the building and fitting into the fabric of the neighborhood," said architect David Delle Donne of the Dietz Partnership. "I think it makes a difference to see a rendering."The rendering didn't change the opinion of Christine Gavin of Little Silver."I was taken aback looking at the scale. I was expecting a smaller building," said Gavin, adding she's also concerned with cut-through traffic."People try anything to get around it, and they will dip through the neighborhood," Gavin said.While the forum may not have changed some minds, some people thanked property owner Aaron Rassas and the experts for holding it."We had no idea what to expect, and I'm glad we did it," he said.Copyright: ___ (c)2013 Asbury Park Press (Neptune, N.J.) Visit the Asbury Park Press (Neptune, N.J.) at .app.com Distributed by MCT Information Services存倉