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    Welcome To Ardmore:

    We Dont Need a Drive Thru Rite Aid!

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    This is our downtown

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    See how nice?

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    We are a walkable community

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    How Would a Drive Thru on a Problematic Corner

    Promote Walkability?

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    Answer? It WOULDNT

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    Here is the New Bryn Mawr Trust

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    Here is what the property owner who owns the land

    where Rite Aid is proposed did with the property

    before

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    See How Yucky?

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    Historical Architectural Detail Across

    Lancaster To Be Considered

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    This is The Intersection It is BUSY!

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    More

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    We Are Main Street. Rite Aid is NOT

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    Safety Last With This Plan

    Pedestrians have a difficult time now

    Cars even with intersection improvements

    have issues

    This is the corner where GIANT tractor trailers

    turn EVERY day, sometimes many times a day

    for the U.S. Post Office, connections down

    Ardmore Ave towards Haverford Road.

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    How Many Rite Aids Do We Need?

    We have a perfectly good Rite Aid in Ardmore

    West

    We have a new Rite Aid in Bryn Mawr

    There is a Rite Aid on border withWynnewood next to Super Fresh grocery

    store.

    Ardmore also has Merricks Pharmacy and aCVS

    Bryn Mawr also has a Walgreens

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    Is this really about Rite Aid?

    Or does this property owner just want more

    land they own zoned with a drive thru?

    Look at their parcel on Lancaster Ave in Bryn

    Mawr the former Dunkin Donuts

    The Bryn Mawr parcel got zoned for a drive

    thru bank that went nowhere and now the

    property sit vacant and derelict, an eyesore

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    This is What Rite Aid Wants, We Are Surprised

    they Didnt Throw in the Moon Too!

    A variance from 155-87.22A to allow a 69.4' side yard setback along the western property line where amaximum 25' setback is required. Alternatively, the applicant challenges the validity of 155-87.22Acontending that this section is arbitrary and contradicts other provisions of the zoning ordinancerequiring minimum aisle widths and minimum dimensions of parking spaces.

    A variance from 155-87.23A(2) to provide parking and access along Lancaster Avenue rather than theless traveled (by vehicles and pedestrians) Ardmore Avenue. Alternatively, the applicant requests adetermination from the Board that the existing parking and access along Lancaster Avenue is an existing

    nonconforming condition that may continue. Alternatively, the applicant challenges the validity of 155-87.23A(2) contending that this section fails to allow for a situation where it is more appropriate toprovide for access on the more traveled road.

    A variance from 155-87.23B(1) to permit 30 parking spaces where 57 spaces are required. Alternatively,the applicant challenges the validity of 155-87.23B(1) contending that this section fails to account for apharmacy use requiring a lower parking ratio. Alternatively, the applicant seeks an interpretation of thezoning ordinance that the existing parking is nonconforming.

    A variance from 155-87.25B(1)(d)[2] to permit a single building entrance that faces out onto LancasterAvenue where a primary entrance along each street frontage or a single corner entrance where the

    streets intersect is required. Alternatively, the applicant challenges the validity of 155-87.25B(1)(d)[2]contending that this section is arbitrary and unreasonably restricts the applicant's discretion indesigning its own building and is beyond the scope of any authority granted by the PA MunicipalitiesPlanning Code.

    A variance from 155-87.25(E) to provide less than the number of street trees required.

    The applicant also requests such additional zoning relief that the Board deems necessary to redevelopthe property as proposed.

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    Fun Media Facts About Rite Aid

    Philadelphia Inquirer 10/29/10 Rite Aid Corp said sales at stores open at least a year fell

    1.7% in October

    The AP 11/17/10 Drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp. said it spent $50,000 lobbying the U.S.

    Government in the 3rd Quarter

    9&10 news in Northern Michigan reported 11/16/10 regarding what drugstores charge on

    prescriptions. the most shocking price difference we found was the generic of Topomax

    with a strength of 100mg and a quantity of 60. Here are the results of our price check: Rite

    Aide $300Thompsons $22

    Mike Weilbacher, Main Line Times 11/18/2010 says ..the township went to great length,

    spending great political capital, to correct the traffic nightmare that was once this

    intersection.Rite-Aid is a big box retailer that specializes in architectural mediocrity,

    tearing down historic anchor buildings in downtowns across the country and imposing

    cheap stucco monstrosities on communities.

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    Say NO To Rite Aid

    ARDMORE FIRST!

    We have enough Rite Aids

    We have enough chain drug stores We need pedestrian safety

    We need our quaint Main Street Business

    District preserved and enhanced Ardmore doesnt need another bad plan