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MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL MEETING OF THE PLANNING & ZONING COMMISSION COUNCIL ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Monday, November 24, 2014 at 7:30 p.m. Mayfield Village Civic Center, Reserve Hall 6622 Wilson Mills Road, Mayfield Village, Ohio 44143 Present: Members of the Planning and Zoning Commission Members of Council Members of the Architectural Review Soard Members of the Citizens Advisory Committee • Call to Order by Planning & Zoning Chairman Jim Farmer. Planning & Zoning Chairman Jim Farmer called the meeting to order at approximately 7:35 p.m. This is a Special meeting. We have a combined group here with Planning and Zoning, Council, Architectural Review Board and Citizens Advisory Committee. We are here tonight with ThenDesign Architecture who are going to make a presentation relating to the Community Room. We will start with comments by Mayor Rinker. • Comments by Mayor Rinker and Introduction to Then Design, Architecture. I was talking to Ed Parker before the meeting. Think of the world in which we live. Just a few years ago getting this information seemed like a marvel. Now we are criticizing the fact that this is dated because this has to be at least 3 years old, maybe more. I thought it an interesting perspective to see where we were just a short time ago. Memory lane shouldn't seem that long ago, but I challenge anyone to look at what we have today and try to remember exactly what this layout was. It's a good starting point for we have finally gotten around to looking at our Community Room. With a lot of the other things we have been doing over the past several years, the Community Room has continued to be a real workhorse. The last time we did anything with it was about 15 years ago. Historically this was a salt shed and then was expanded to be an extra facility for Service, then in about 1980 was converted into the Community Room it is. The old shed building was interchangeably Service and then Service built in 1984 at its current site. Then the Fire Department moved in there. Around 1994 we created a new station. Then the Police Department moved in there. They had always been in the basement of the old Village Hall. We moved over to this side of the street. Eventually we built a Police Station. It's hard to believe it has been over 4 years since we built the Police Station. Then we were able to turn our sights over to the Community Room. I think it's kind of quaint to see our little trailer which was always adjacent to our property. The long story short is that about 2 years ago when we really started to look diligently at what we were going to do here we sent out a survey in the community. About 23% or 300 responded. Out of those, the most salient points we got is a majority of people have agreed they generally like the basic size and layout'of the Community Room. They like the.location of it. No one has really been looking at doing anything drastic. On the other hand, everyone agrees the post in the center is annoying. The space is tired. -