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- -? __V PLANNING COMMISSION SEPTEMBER 13, 1988 PAGE 6 of the first building and landscaping will be completed with the construction of the second and third building, adjacent residents may chose the type of ornamental trees they wanto Mr. Carlisle presented graphs showing the impact of a 4 story office building set back 100 feet with landscaped buffer, and of homes set back 50 feet with no required buffering; graphs depicting the density of one, two, and four story buildings and the amount of open area for each, the taller the building, the more open area. He maintains that this office project will create 2,125 jobs and according to their figures from other developments, 350 of these jobs would beheld by North Olmsted residents. They project that from 1991 to 1995 a residential development would require $857,000 to support it, however the office__building would create a surplus of 1.3 mil- lion dollars for the community._ In summery Mr. Carlisle stated that they have developed this proposal with the input of the neighbors, will continue to work with both the neighbors and the Planning Commission and will accept the requirements of the Office Building District as legislated. Adjacent property owners addressed the Commission. D. Brisler, vice president of the Park West Home Owners Association, requested that rezoning be tabled until Ord. 88-75 is clarified. A. Koson prefers office use to multi-family. Council- man McKay agrees that rezoning should be postponed until the ordinance is specific and questioned if it is proper to rezone properties on Columbia Road since if they are rezoned no buffering would be required. Assistant Law Director Dubelko stated that there are yard requirements between building and parking areas and non-residential property, but they are not as strict and would not require the same type of buffering. M. Zimmerman, a resident, questioned if the City is profiting from Biskind's developments, pointing out the condition of roads, taxes which have not been reduced, and schools which are asking for additional monies. Mrs. Diver questioned if the ordi- nance could not be written so as to require taller buildings to be placed closer to Brookpark Road and the Corporate Center thus keeping the lower buildings closer to residential areas, both single family and multi-family, and requested that the Commission consider 180 to 200 foot set back if the 250 foot set back is unacceptable to developers; she presented pictures of the Corporate Center buildings taken from 100, 150? 200, 250, and 300 feet away illustrating the impact of these buildings from their backyards. Council man McKay stated that the traffic figures as presented would seem to be favorable, but pointed out that the rush hour traf.fic would be increased, and believes that many of these cars will be using residential streets. Mr. Jaco, another neighbor, stated that these same arguments were used with previous rezoning requests and is not convinced that these office buildings are needed by the City and pointed out the developer knew how the property was zoned when he purchased it. Other neighbors.a Mr. DiRoma, Mrs. Christler, Mrs. Schuller stated various concerns: noise, lack of privacy, excess traffic, and questioned the accuracy of the projected traffic counts. Mr. Carlisle responded that their figures could be off by several percent but were based on both developments being completed; development will not intrude on the residential area; they recognized the risk when they bought residential land; again stated that they will agree to comply with what Planning Commission and Council determine for set backs, but would like the Commission to respond to this request at this time, and advised Mr. Boyer that there was no set completion date as yet, it could be as late as 1996. In response to Mr. Boyer's ques- tions on the traffic counts and how this traffic would effect various intersections in the City, Mr. Sherkow advised that most traffic will come from and return to the east using Brookpark Road to I-480 at Clague Road, and would avoid the more congested Country Club ramp; he explained how they made their projections; and repeated that the Brookpark traffic was greater twelve years ago than it will be after the completion of the Corporate Center