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garden apartment; retail; or 2 story office. Using the mandates in the Zoning <br />Code there could be: 6 attached single family units; 24 garden apartment units; <br />over 10,000 square feet of retail; or 30;000 square feet of two story office. She <br />explained that under each use it would be determined how much traffic would be <br />generated; how many new residents would be created, how many school children <br />would be generated, how much sewage would be generated, and how many public <br />services would be needed. Each focus area will be studied in a sf"iiilar manner.' <br />They also studied the Great Northern Malland the impact on the City as well as <br />the impact that the new Strongsville Mall will have on Great Northern. Regarding <br />the industrial area, they compared the number of industrial establishments there <br />are in North Olmsted With other cities: Fairview has 4, North Olmsted has 17; <br />North Ridgeville has 52; Olmsted Falls has 17 and Westlake has 57. North <br />O7msted's full potential has not been reached, but has an advantage of access <br />between 480 and the turnpike, and they would like to work with the City to <br />increase the rnnnber of industries. In reference to office space, it is estimated <br />that the vacancy rate in the western suburbs is roughly 18 to 200, they have no <br />figures on North Olmsted's office vacancy. They have also proposed a Lorain Road <br />Market Survey and-questioned if there would be any interest in submitting this to <br />a sampling of business owners. Prior to discussing this, Mr. Thomas asked if <br />various types of industrial uses have been studied to compare the advantages of <br />each. Ms. Thayler responded that presently no distinctions have been specified, <br />but there is a wide difference in the uses, wholesaling generates fewer tax <br />dollars but manufacturing generates far more, both income and personal property <br />tax. In reference to distributing the survey, they have considered sending it to <br />every 5th business on Lorain Road. •Mr. Thomas suggested sending the svrvey to <br />various categories of business, such as furniture/appliances, etc. This would <br />limit the scope of the sampling, and would ignore other businesses, a random <br />sampling would reach a few of each type, but the idea was to determine what the <br />merchants felt about Lorain Road. The survey would go into the cYiaracter of <br />Lorain Road, which is the way North Olmsted is portrayed to visitors. Mr. Skoulis <br />questioned the purpose of this survey. Ms. Thayler believed this would involve <br />the property owners in the master plan, would enhance viability, and would <br />encourage the support and cooperation of the property awners. Mr. Skoulis <br />suggested including questions asking how property owners would respond to certain <br />tax incentives as suggested by the Mayor recently. Mr. Thomas would like to <br />develop a survey for residents asking how they feel about the City, both the <br />commercial area and the residential quality of life in the City; do they want <br />more retail; do they plan on staying, as well as their opinion of the existing <br />corrnnercial. Ms. Thayler responded that this had been done in other areas,and one <br />survey was published in a local newspaper. The members agreed that both surveys <br />would be useful, that residents should have some input.into the master plan; and <br />would need some input from C.P.C to formulate a survey. Regarding the business <br />survey, it was suggested?that types of business categories should be listed so <br />respondents could circle the appropriate one. Ms. Thayler advised that the <br />responses from these surveys could be analyzed by computer, but stated that would <br />probably be some additional cost.involved. Mr. Schultz responded that.there would <br />be an additional cost for a residential survey, but not for the commercial one <br />which ha.d been included previously. Triis can be worked out latero Mr. Schultz <br />then presented information on focus areas, including a map of possible focus <br />areas and undeveloped areas. He defined a.focus area as "An area within the city <br />of special interest to public officials, business owners, and residents <br />demonstrating potential for development/redevelopment." C.P.C. has listed six <br />possible focus areas as: A).The western end of Lorain Road Corridor_; B) The North <br />Olmsted Industrial Paxk; C) Cxocker/Sterns Road Exterision; D) Great Northern Mall <br />3