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Minutes of the Special Meeting of Council <br />Monday, November 18, 2019 <br />Page 5 <br />There were no comments. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, so now we will have those who are not in favor of it to please <br />come to the podium and speak on it. <br />• OPEN PORTION <br />5 -minute limit imposed by Chair. Those who wish to speak must <br />first state their name and address. (The public is requested to limit <br />their discussion to agenda item only. <br />Derek McDowell <br />6543 Highland Road <br />Mayfield Village, Ohio <br />I just have some questions. I am not for or against it. My questions are just mainly two points, <br />concerns that I have had about obviously businesses growing in the community, particularly a <br />surgical center. I just was wondering, would you have a private ambulance service contract in <br />place for transports or surgeries that might go south, or would you plan on utilizing Mayfield <br />Village's Fire and EMS service? The other question I would have would be about capacities. <br />About how many offices or physicians would you have and also an estimated number of <br />surgeries per day in terms of about how many people would you anticipate in terms of these <br />offices and how many people would you have coming and going through these offices, <br />particularly for traffic? And would we need eventually a light at this intersection? <br />Council President Saponaro stated to Dr. Moyal, to make this easy and I appreciate your <br />questions, you need to go up to the podium just so that everyone can hear what your answers are. <br />Dr. Moyal stated, one question is about the number of patients. It's a one -day center. Patients <br />are scheduled throughout the day. The volume is not going to be that high. Just for reference, <br />we see in the medical center behind about 12,000 visits a year. I don't know what impact that <br />has on the traffic, but we don't have any issues coming in or patients who complain about <br />parking. We can say that our parking lot is never ever full. As far as patient care, I don't believe <br />it's going to affect the city or the traffic. Our building has grown. We have an increased number <br />of professionals, surgeons, pediatrics, eye doctors, podiatrists and so on and so forth. Even now, <br />because when we first started we didn't have the number of physicians. Even now that the <br />building is full, almost 100% occupied, we don't have any issues. I don't know if the police <br />department can attest to it to with any issues with traffic going in and out. The main issue we <br />have is basically the traffic coming out of Progressive. At about 5:00, like any big city that has <br />traffic, we have a little bit of traffic. I think as far as putting a light there, I am not sure. I am not <br />the expert to speak. People actually do those studies, they come in and they run the numbers and <br />see if you need a traffic light. In short, I don't foresee any tremendous increase in volume that <br />would affect traffic pattern or parking. There was another question. <br />Council President Saponaro stated, the other question was dealing with the private ambulance in <br />case there's a problem with a surgery. <br />