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Regular Council Meeting 10/18/93 1'age Eight started focusing on an alternate road (the old Andrews' property) which is primarily in 1Vlayfield Heights. N.E.O.R.S.D. indicated they are looking into it. In possibly 3 or 4 weeks they have people who will be surveying it and studying the topography to get a physical lay of the land to see if this alternate road is feasible. Beyond that there are questions of who the property owners are and getting the necessary easements. There is a lot of information to get and a lot of decisions to be made. Mr. Flynn said he believes this is a subject the media should be interested in because of the amount of money and the entites involved. He said if Mayor Rinker would issue some type of press release, he feels it would be worthwhile. N.O.A.C.A. Traffic Studv - Mayor Rinker said he would like to incorporate into the minutes the notes of his conversation with Mr. Mahmoud Al-Lozi who is N.O.A.C.A.'s man heading up this project. He thinks one of the most salient points of this study is that they are still going to solicit input from us and from other sources. This is a$33,000 study right now which is to study the Wilson Mills corridor from Lander to S.O.M. It is clear from our standpoint that we would like to see some changes in the traffic light configuration. The specific rquest is that the light between Alpha and Joyce roads be moved from the Builder's Square site up to Joyce Road; that all driveways on the north side of the street that run between Alpha and Miner would be closed off so we would have a new light at Joyce. Mayor Rinker said it would create a 4-way intersection which he understands is a favorable traffic design. (This would allow ingress and egress out of the Builder's Square/Front Row site from that location and otherwise from Miner Road and Alpha but not through these driveways.) They are going to include in their study Worton Park and Joyce roads; they are looking to broaden the scope of the study. Mayor Rinker noted some points to consider offered by Mr. Overmyer. The point tonight is that we should enumerate these items and any others. Mrs. Leppla said the Traffic Committee met this evening. They discussed with Mr. Overmyer a possibility of pulling Progressive back into our discussions and working with them. He had a number of excellent ideas that seemed to be pretty cost effective. Hopefully between the Mayor of Highland Heights, the Mayor of Mayfield Village, Mr. Overymyer and myself, and possibly the Engineers fromthe 2 cities-we could get together and meet with them and hopefully draw Progressive back into these discussions. The traffic siudy will last 5 months. At that time the recommendations have to be made for plans. Then plans have to be made. Improvements are not going to be tomorrow. We have to make some arrangements until that time. We also xeviewed and made suggestions for the scope of the study. Mrs. Leppla said she spoke to Mr. Al-Lozi at the end of September and made some addiHons to the scope of the study. Mayor Rinker has talked to him. We just felt tonight that we could not come up