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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee Page 5 weather's bad, you still have this relationship between a lawn and a house. This perspective probably as much as any gives us a better sense of how this layout can possibly fit in with the existing landscaping work we have done. John Marrelli, Ron Wynne, Doug Metzung and Ron DiNardo are here. If there are any questions or thoughts, we will try to field them. • Open Portion - ~ & A Q: Comparing the two facilities as it relates to the capacity of the existing facility after it has been renovated and the new facility when it's built, would it house more people and would the functionality be improved from going from one to the other and the utilization of that for the community, how would it be better? A: For the most part, it would probably be about the same, especially the meeting rooms. It will be the exact same size in both rooms. There will be 2 meeting rooms. Occupancy is 175 per Code. But the functionality is hopefully a lot better. It will flow together better. We didn't want to make it any bigger, unless you guys tell us to. Mayor: Diane maybe able to answer this best as far as who is using it during the daytime and during the week. I know our Community Partnership has a lot of programs there. Diane: During the week, during the day it really is mostly senior programming. Evenings we have a lot of different community groups during the week. The weekends is the private parties by residents. Mayor: What we have done as a policy is we try to use the Civic Center much more as a business community center and the Community Room much more as a social center for the weekends especially. We hold our more social oriented events here. Q: I really like this new building. With regard to the dining room, I like your thought of using the windows in the concession. Where are the restrooms? A: Upper left. Q: Would it be possible to think about outdoor access? A: That's a good question. You can put a pair of lockable doors that goes by the hallway. That is part of why it was designed like this. One of the ideas was that that double entry was a part of the community access to Center School. You could lock off the Community Center while leaving the restrooms open. Q: I think the Town Center is a terrific idea. I like your idea that if you are moving it up there, it will slow people down. Can we get an LED sign out front with events going on like they do at the Schools? A: I like that.