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the infrastructure to accommodate this development would be eliminated now that the Mill Road accesses have been eliminated. In other words, tahat is the city's financial responsibility for these improvements. Mr. Deichmann responded that his one million dollar estimate was the-lowest, the estimate went up to 3 or 4 million. He questioned if they ha.d updated the traffic study since Porter Road had been under construction when they did the original traffic count which would have had an impact on the voltunes. Also° estimating a cost would be affected if acceleration and deceleration lanes are to be included as discussed previously, none are shown on the plan. He believed that constructing these lanes would be possible, and would like to see something on this from Traff Pro. Mr. Newberry stated that they owned no real estate on either side of Lorain Road for these lanes, and did not think it was the Commission's purview to demand that they perform improvements on other people's property. The traffic study does address these lanes but they would be of marginal use since Lorain Road already has 5 lanes. Mr. Lepisto explained that this was on the traffic study and also that they did require a left turn lane exiting Ylal-Mart and which would result in a service "C" intersection without the-deceleration lanes. Porter Road was not re-counted after construction was completed, but it will be. He explained that peak traffic hours in North Olmsted are different than the peak hours for the store. Mr. King advised that the stores peak hours on Friday are between 7:30 and 8:30 and on Saturdays are 12 noon to 4:00 p.m. The members have no problem with Wal-Mart, only with the location and the traffic. At this point residents were asked to corunent. yIr. Herbster, r1s. Buchler, Nirs. Herbster, rir. Richlick, Mr. Mason, Mr. Miller, Mr. Burns, and Mr. Piar, spoke initially, and had many comments, objections, and concerns. Received notification on Wednesday that Wal Mart iaould be meeting with the residents on Monday, would like a longer notification period. At that meeting the developer stated that the Conunission was not serving the Corinnin-i ty wella North 07.msted is a suburban cor?mnmi ty and the roads cannot handle the increased traffic and these roads will be main access roads from surrounding comrm,nities. Raising the grade of the building could reduce the height of the mound. The Super K-Mart proposed for Westlake N'Till probably be built and will also impact North Olmsted's traffic and with the completion of Wal-Mart the traffic tivill be tmbelievable. Additional traffic will hinder emergency vehicles on the roads. There are 3 schools within a half of mile of the site and there would be safety. problems. It would ca,use more air pollution. Believed a better use for this land could be found since it is in the center of the town. Since the Commission just denied a variance for an ice cream stand because of traffic, how can they allow this kind of traffic. Questioned if the developer would need approval by the city to change the hours. At what time would the trucks come to piek up from the trash compactor. What could be done to stop customers from cutting through these cross access points to get to Wal-Mart. The residents of North Olmsted do not want Wal-Mart on that site and asked the developers to look elsewhere. This is a non-union project, the white block building will look like a garage, and will not r.iatch adjacent brick buildings. Wal-Mart will drive other stores out of business. Sam Walton always put the stores on the outskirts of town, the'residents do not want this in the middle of town, there is room in the industrial park where there is easy access to highways. More neighbors should have been invited to the neighborhood meeting, not just the abutting neighbors, specifically the resident of developments off Dover Center and Forter as well as Butternut Ridge and others. Residents are cutting though developments now to avoid Lorain Road traffic, adding 10,000 trips a day will negatively impact other streets. Objected to Wal-Mart using a city facility for a private meeting since this is a private enterprise. With this additional traffic the rating of the traffic which now has a"D" (rating from A 11