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1VIAYFIELD VILLAGE 6621 Wilson Mills Road Mayfield Village, OH 44143 (440) 461-2210 ?.. MElVIO Date: October 10, 2003 To: Council President Buckholtz and Village Council From: Bruce Rinker Re: SOM Medians I am urging Council to authorize an expenditure not to exceed 200 000 for the addition of fully landscaped, raised median islands on S.O.M. Center Road, extending from White Road in the north to Fisher's Tavern in the south. As the entire widening project continues, that cost may decrease. We have already made construction modifications creating cost savings in excess of that figure. In terms of spacing, where intersections and safe turning movements into private drives warrant pa vin&median section, the landscaped medians will be pulled back to provide adequate spacing for same. In August, 2000 the S.O.M. Widening Committee had recommended landscaped medians from White Road to Highland Road, at the time acting with the understanding that the right-of- way width south of Highland could not feasibly accommodate landscaped medians. In September, 2000 Council voted to limit the landscaped medians between a point beginning somewhere north of St. Bartholomew's Church and ending just south of White Road. A lot has happened since then. We have purchased through arm's-length transactions the Zako, Palermo and Falkner properties that abut the west side of S.O.M.; we are in the process of adding two new softball fields south of Parkview Pool; we have already drastically changed Wiley Park, by removing one of the two ball fields for creation of a large detention basin and related stream restoration that will extend to and include the Palermo property, we will add a trail to run alongside the field and stream, and we intend to "flip" the remaining ball field to position home plate and the infield well away from S.O.M., which will allow us to install landscaping and buffering beyond the outfield and adjacent to residences nearby; Whitehaven Cemetery has given us permission to run the eastside bike path into the cemetery grounds just beyond the east right-