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. ' PLANNING COMMISSION JULY 28. 1987 PAGE 3 areas should be paved before final occupancy. Chairman Burns pointed out this is not a parking area, only an access drive to an outbuilding. City Engineer Schaller stated that the drainage could be installed without paving the drive. The forester viewed the plans and spoke with the developer. It was decided that they would discuss the proposal at a later date. T. Morgan moved that the proposal to construct a maintenance garage for Barlow Plaza, 30590 Lorain Road, be approved with the stipulation that the access road to the maintenance building be completed within one year from granting the permit, seconded by E. Traczvk. Roll call on motion: Morgan, Traczyk, Betts, Gorris, and Burns, yes. Mr. Bierman and Mr. Thomas, no. Motion carried. 4) Carriage Plaza addition, 25151 Lorain Road Proposal to construct addition to west of exisiting building. (Heard by Architectural Board of Review July 22, 1987). Mr. Acciarri, architect, Mr. Valore, attorney, and Mr. Kovacic, owner, presented plans which were approved as presented by the Architectural Board of Review. Police Department report stated: trucks larger than a rubbish hauler could not negotiate the turn around the southwest corner of the building; that it would be almost impossible to make a left hand turn out of the westernmost driveway which is to be an exit only; and larger trucks turning east would have to go into the through lane. Fire Department reported that access for fire apparatus must be provided as per city ordinance. Forester's report proposed eliminating 7 parking spaces on the easterly boundry of the rear area in order to leave a 25 foot natural buffer strip to screen residents from this develop- ment and the exisiting coffinercial development on Great Northern Blvd. Mr. Acciarri had no.objection to el.iminating these spaces since parking would still conform to code; however, in reference to the Police Department report, he stated that according to their studies a tractor trailer could make the turn around the building; the western drive will be.posted right turn only and the angle of the drive suggests a right turn. The drives are wide enough to accomodate two way traf.fice, but parking pattern will be-such that one way traffice is required, but trucks would be allowed to enter the western most drive. Mr. Kovacic stated that the Fire Department did view the proposal and preferred this layout to what is exisitiqg. Mr. Valore pointed out that they will be eliminating the two exisiting drives belonging to the restaurant which they will be tearing down. City Engineer Schaller stated that, as was discussed at the last meeting, if the parking spaces in the rear were empty, a semi-tractor could make the turn, and pointed out that the configuration of the rear of the building was reduced. Building Commissioner Conway confirmed that parking would conform if 7 spaces were eliminated. Mr. Conway advised that according to Section 1214.05 of the Zoning Code, any addition whose square footage exceeds 10,000 and is less than 40,000 is required to have two 12 foot by 50 foot truck loading zones, thus the addition requires two loading zones and thP entire plaza only requires two. Since these loading zones cannot encroach into the 50.foot buffer strip adjacent to residential property, the two exisiting zones are non-conforming. It was suggested that the a:rea marked truck loading at the southernmost end of the tiuilding be increased to 24 feet by 50:feet in order to provide 2 loading zones, but then the