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Minutes of the Special Meeting of <br />Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural <br />Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee <br />Page 11 <br />Mayor: No. Except for rush hour, that's probably a convenient way to get north and south with the <br />steady traffic we have. Rush hour, forget about it. This is conceptual. What we are trying to <br />show over tune is how this could be fleshed out. The immediate issue is dealing with the <br />community. <br />Q: I know you talked about shared parking, but in this design, are you thinking of additional <br />parking spots? <br />Mayor: We may actually lose about 10 spaces total. It's hard to say. If we can tweak it, it's possible <br />we can dedicate our current driveway as spillover parking. When you have a big event at <br />Center School, there's no parking. That's never going to change. The basic idea is for most <br />day-to-day operational uses, this creates a separation that you come in on a common drive and <br />split up. There's the opportunity, especially northerly where people going to Center School <br />could park there. They have a sidewalk to walk on and then they can cross. The School has <br />said to make sure that crossing point relative to trucks makes sense. Again, those are details <br />we have to pin down with a traffic study. The basic idea is by moving this footprint over, <br />what do we gain? This makes a lot of sense and we need to study more floor plans, traffic and <br />parking issues. Maybe we also need to look at orientation. Maybe this isn't the answer. <br />Maybe this gets turned 90 degrees and it actually faces SOM. I know that Center School is <br />quite interested in opening the view to the school. That's why you don't need to necessarily <br />get hung up too much on the floor plans but the idea of are we building new so that we can <br />explore floor plans. <br />Mayor: With anything, there are trade-offs. We have opened up more of the gazebo. That's a public <br />space we use. There's a certain amount we can tweak. <br />Q: You have a walkway, going across Wilson Mills. Could that be a tunnel? <br />Q: How about flashing indicators where you press the button and the flashers go on? It's not like <br />a traditional traffic light, but it gives the driver notice that there's a crosswalk here and if it's <br />flashing, someone can be crossing? <br />Mayor: They have those in downtown Cleveland, Canton, Akron, a number of places where it's really <br />a design element. Again, the problem is, you have cueing issues. Today where the left turn <br />northbound is, people are starting to turn left right in front of our westerly driveway. It's <br />called a suicide lane for a reason in that area. With a tunnel, a basic tunnel was around $1 <br />million. It's going to be north of that today. That is very barebones. In an area like this, the <br />space you would have to use, it's always great to think big, but I don't think we will. <br />Q: Is the main driveway off SOM going to be three lanes? <br />Mayor: They are showing three lanes, one in and two out for left and right turns. Don't be wedded to <br />that. That may not be the layout. <br />