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MINUTES OF A REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL Mayfield Village May 20, 2002 The Council of Mayfield Village met in regular session on Monday, May 20, 2002 at 8:00 p.m. in the Mayfield Village Senior Center/Community Room. Council President Bill Buckholtz presided. ROLL CALL: Present: Mr. Buckholtz, Mrs. Cinco, Mr. Ilacqua, Mr. Marquardt, . Mr. Marrie and Mrs. Mills Absent: Dr. Parker Also Present: Mayor Rinker, Mr. Brett, Mr. Cappello, Mr. Diemert, Mr. Metzung, Chief Mohr, Mr. Samac, Chief Stevens, Mr. Thomas and Mrs. Roman The Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag was given. OPEN PORTION Rick Christian, 510 S.O.M. Center Road, said he attended the Planning and Zoning meeting regarding the proposed access to the Goldberg property and we requested he write something down. Mr. Christian said it is proposed that the access to the Goldberg Property be at Metro Park Drive and his contention is that it will cause traffic problems. Mr. Goldberg's experts said it would not cause traffic problems. The only thing the Goldberg representative said was that the turn lanes would be fine; they did not say anything about the traffic pattern for the through traffic. Mr. Christian said he does not think they have had any study done on it. Traffic backs up at rush hour now between I-271 and Beta and Alpha--which is about the same distance. If things recover from 9-11 and they start to add employees, traffic will come down Highland and eventually to S.O.M. (for traffic stacking.) That makes that intersection a bad place to be at rush hour. If the light went in at Hickory Hill, you would have twice as much room for traffic stacking and there would be less of an impact on the whole area. By the time traffic moved from Hickory Hill to Highland and from Highland to Hickory Hill, that would allow people on Metro Park to get onto S.O.M. between the traffic flow. If you stack them up there now, there would be wall to wall traffic. The gentleman from the Goldberg Properties said the cost will be way too much (they own all the property there) from Hickory Hill. No one is saying that Goldberg owns all that property back there. If Council said put the road at Hickory Hill, they could build their second stage (which is going to be there anyway) first. Nobody says they have to build in the corner by Highland first. If they built the second stage of their buildings first, the road going through at Hickory Hill would go right to the property and it wouldn't cost them anymore than going in at Metro Park and going straight back to the property that is back there now. If they build a 4-story building back there at Metro Park, there is nothing saying that they aren't going to come back to Council and say we have a 4-story building at Metro Park, now we want to build a 5 or 6-story building by Hickory Hill. Now that blows their 600-car theory because now they are going to have more than 600 cars coming out staclcing up between Highland and Metro Park.