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