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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, July 16, 2012 Page 4 Here in Mayfield Village, I have been involved in a few projects over the last two months. The first one we looked at was the Village Green Extension. This is a plan that shows a couple of different options. I believe you have seen some of these images previously, but what we are looking at is when the demolition occurs across the street there are some options in terms of how much existing parking would be removed as well and then the park from the corner at SOM and Wilson Mills, how far west that could extend and how that could also translate into a larger Village greenspace. Similar to that, we worked in downtown Hudson on the redevelopment of the area behind Main Street in Hudson. We did all the streetscape planning for that project about 7 years ago. We also did what we ca11 their Village green extension. They have a traditional green opposite Main Street along 91, but then the green extension is really this greenspace that takes on a whole different character that's behind and adjacent to the new shops and offices created behind the Main Street. It features this element that they have suminer band concerts at, all done in pervious pavement with recycled stone that was reused from some other sites. It was a great opportunity to reuse that stone. We looked at Wiley Park for Bill and the site of the playground. We worked with Tom to actually come up with a grading scheme for this location of the play structure. Previous to that, we worked quite extensively on playgrounds in Shaker Heights and for the Cleveland Heights and Shaker Heights Schools. This particular project was the Community Park at Lee Road and Chagrin. It has been over a series of about three different phases. It included play equipment, sport, soccer and a multi-purpose soccer field and a walking path. We also redid Horseshoe Lake Park for the City of Shaker Heights. This was about 5 years ago. It included boardwalks, a treehouse and new play equipment. We characterize it as a natural play environment so that it is not your traditional bright colored play equipment. It's much more designed with the idea that it blends in to the natural environment. There are climbing nets. There are older logs that the kids use as balance beams and other play equipment that really get tucked in to the wooded site and disappear. Then we have miniature boardwalks that actually provide access for the community. It was previously inaccessible. Then, a median trail. This is a trail that extended along the Shaker median. Those of you that are familiar with what Beachwood did in the Shaker median from Richmond Road to the west, this is the piece that Shaker picked up on. It went from Warrensville all the way out to Green and beyond to link into the trail system. This ultimately provides a way that you can get from the Shaker Lakes in Shaker Heights on safely accessible bike routes a11 the way out into Pepper Pike and eventually into the Chagrin River Va11ey. We also worked with RTA on some of their rapid stops including the one at Shaker Square. The last project that we have ,helped out to date is the amphitheatre project adjacent to the . swimming pool. This is the. Master Plan that we came up with last month. We also helped Tom with a grading plan. I think there's a contractor accomplishing that grading adjustment now that ultimately will allow us to create terraces and accessible routes up in to the amphitheatre.