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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 12 A: The way we looked at it was to snake the whole parking area two way which right off the bat should help the drop off situation because if we were to create a drop off here, right now the parents come in, drop off and head back out. If you are getting on to 271 through your morning commute to work, you are coming in, dropping your kid off and then actually creating traffic to other people trying to pull in. What should relieve that right away is if this is a drop off and if you are going on 271 you go this way and back to SOM you can go this way or this way, it should help solve a lot of the problems. Once again, that is something that needs to be studied further. This is ari idea. Mayor: We are somewhat co-located with Center School. One of the questions is the Board of Ed. Building, this shows a sort of footprint for the space around it. We never would assume they would lose the yard in the front. There's a fair amount of side yard on the south. There maybe an opportunity to push that driveway closer to that building and then utilize the space south of it for other parking or change the overall site geometry. One of the problems we have here is the way parking around Center School is chopped up because there's parking at the lot in the back, we have our Fire Station, there are different grade issues. If there were ways to make it more common area parking more efficient, that's one thing we want to look at. That's not the primary issue, but we are trying to see what problems we might be able to solve. Q: Would there be any way to possibly expand parking to the west along Wilson Mills at all? Is that all private property? Mayor: Yes. That's the dentist office. Q: Is what we are designing 4,900 square feet? Is that the full structure? A: It currently is at 4,500. Q: If it goes over 5,000 square feet, the Code starts changing and you have to put more fire protection and bigger bathrooms and everything else which exponentially grows the cost? A: 5,000 square feet would increase the occupancy but that wouldn't do anything for fire protection. That's not how that's determined. Fire Chief: I don't think that's going to change what I think is necessary from a fire safety aspect. The one thing that I can tell you that I have been thinking about the whole time is the kitchen situation. I think the idea of having more of a residential kitchen setting to keep it a community family room is a little bit under par for what I think is necessary for safety. I think it should be acommercially-designed kitchen with hoods and suppression system. John M: The difference between 2,500 square feet and 5,000 square feet in Mayfield Village is not negligible. It is going to require the same kind of fire protection. The kitchen is not going to have a hood system and a grill. It's simply slated to be a warming kitchen. It's not a cooking kitchen like we have down the hall. It's where food can be brought in that's already been prepared and you can break it down, warm it up and serve it that way. Also, I like the idea