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? r ., in the next few years and indicates where the City is planning to spend money and the approximate cost of these projects. This is covered in detail in the Infrastructure and Public Facility Report. He detailed some of the proposed improvements from 1992 to 1995. Some of these will be ongoing projects, such as street repair and rehabilitation, and will reappear each year. Some major regional transportation improvements are planned: Clague Road improve.ment project; Crocker Stearns Extension and Connector; relocated S.R. 252; and other major transportation areas had been studied previously and are included in this report and will be discussed in more detail during this study. Mr. Morgan questioned if the C.P.C. had looked into these plans to determine if there would be other areas which should be studied as well or if some should be studied before others, etc. Mr. Schultz responded that no detailed analysis has been done on this as yet and also stated that some of the N.O.A.C.A. projects listed in a 1986 study have been included for consideration, but some of these may not be feasible at this time, and there is also a more recent project dealing with the R.T.A. Rapid extension which was not part of the 1986 study. In reference to parks, the City has twice the acreage of park land considered desirable by national standards because of the two Metro Parks which are more regional in nature, however as far as community parks with ball parks, etc. the City is somewhat deficient, and this use might be considered in this study. Mr. Morgan believed that adding small neighborhood pa.rks had been suggested by others. Mr. Orlowski stated that Mr. Skoulis had mentioned having parks on several occasions. Mr. Schultz stated that some of the imdeveloped parcels are owned by either the school board or the City and presented a map identifying those areas. He would like some input from the members as to any use that they would feel appropriate for these areas or if there ha.d been any previous proposals for that lando At the last meeting, a question was raised as to whether or not commercial development paid for itself. Mro Schultz presented a report from DuPage County development department near Chicago which indicated that some commercial developments did not pay for themselves, considering the hidden costs for road improvements, ma,intenance, traffic system, and, safety systems. He pointed out tha,t often schools are impacted by new residents moving in to work in the commercial developments. He advised that the report did not come to any specific conclusion. At this point Mr. Tressler, who was to present information on focus area A-1, advised that after this master plan is eompleted they will be working on a region wide recreation plan, and this analysis will rate commun-ities as to their outdoor recreational facilities. Those who laek these facilities, may be eligible for federal funding. He went on to explain R.T.A.'s project, Transit 2010, which is a long range rail transportation plan for the region which they hope to have completed by the year 2010. One of the Yiighest priority projects will be the extension of the rapid transit's Red Line from the airport to Great Northern Mall, and the concept is, at this time, for the train to nm down the center of Brookpark Road which has a 20 foot wide medium strip. The rapid would branch off the Brookpark Rapid over I-480 and would meet Rocky River Drive at -grade, continue down the Brookpark Park median, perhaps it would be elevated at this point, to Great Northern. These could be rapid cars, but there are other options, an electric trolley, a people mover, or even a short run magnetic levitation rail. If North Olmsted should decide that this is something that they would like, the C.P.C. could be instrumental in expediting the process. He had presented a packet explaining the phasing of various Transit 2010 projects. He believed that there would be several advantages to this: linking Tower City to Great NortherN Mall, linking the airport to Great Northern, access from Fairview, as well as from N.A.S.A. He pointed out that there is over 150 acres of vacant land along Brookpark, and also vacant land could be available at the end of the line for 2