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_ • ?' ,, - 25% if these commercial areas were totally developed. It was agreed that guidelines for developing the western end of Lorain Road were needed along with developing the focus areas, and improving aesthetics of the downtown area all of which were specific goals. Although specifics for rezoning undeveloped land were given, there were no firm recommendations for integrating these parcels with the surrounding areas, it was more of a spot zoning situation. It was agreed that all the original goals should be cross referenced with the last chapter since it appeared that some of the goals in the plan were never stated by the Commission. City Engineer Deichmann suggested placing some of these first chapters which are valuable for reference in an appendix. It was agreed that chapter nine should be the first chapter and sone of the other information should be used to support the goals. For instance, goal rnunber one should give some specific advice as to how North Olmsted's codes should be upgraded. As far as the second pa.ragraph is concerned, Mr. Gorris wondered if CPC had looked at the Commission's past record on rezoning from residential to commercial, he pointed out that only 3 parcels had been rezoned to commercial in the past 13 years. Mra Thomas stated that much of the information that the members need is in the plan, but it is so disjointed it is hard to find. Building Commissioner Conway agreed that some of this generic information seemed to be plugged into the plan for North Olmsted, and most of it had been discussed during the past six or seven months as general diseussion, no specific recommendations were made. The.map does indicate that the western end of . Lorain Road should be limited retail whieh is not what the Commission requested. He stated that the city is developing a housing maintenance code, but that has nothing to do with this plan. Assistant Law Director Dubelko advised that the charter had required that the Comm.ission eome up with a master plan that contains - recomnendations for appropriate land use classifications for every parcel of land that is in the city. He is not imhappy with the plan, but agreed-that the first 6 chapters are classic planning but they could be used to support these recommendations,. especially in the event that a rezoning is being contested in courte The goals stated in chapter nine are not relevant to what is required by Charter. He believed that chapter 7 is iahere they tried to do what the Commission asked them to do and he had no probiem with chapter 8. He believed that only some minor adjustments were needed, and since this is the first plan, the Conunission could only concentrate on certain areas as has been done in the focus areas with recommendations for those areas, the next plan could eoncentrate an other areas. He maintained that CPC may have given more information than the Cor.miission asked for but they have a different notion of what a master plan is or what was specified in the charter. He stated that since every parcel in the city is zoned at present and due to time constraints this first plan can address only the undeveloped areas in the city, either to keep as is or to rezone. The Comnission should report to Council that because of time and budgetary constraints and because this is the first master plan, the initial plan must concentrate on undeveloped areas, other areas will be discussed with the next plan. Mr. Skoulis advised that Councilman McKay had concerns over a parcel on Kennedy Ridge Road being rezoned for a town house use because it would aggravate existing traffic problems of access onto Collunbia Road. Mr. Tallon, who had just arrived, stated that there is a lot of data in the plan and it can be used as a tool. He agreed that the final map did not reflect what was discussed, and thought that there had been nore discussion of the western end. He felt the plan was very general. Mr. Thomas and PZr. Tallon agreed that this information would be very helpful to both the Engineering Department and the Law Department, and that the Lata Department will have'a tool in the event that a developer woul:d take the city to court. r1r. Gorris suggested comparing the plan with the Commission's original goals. The members discussed the goals listed in chapter 9 and agreed that goal 1, under ??3 _ - --