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alteration of the McDonald's aud Olmsted Square sites based on the new traffic access with Wal-Mart, what the impacts on those developments would be and also ask the Building Commissioner to provide the Conmnission with the formerly approved plans or final plans of those si.tes; also ask the developers to provide overlays indicating the changes in parking layout and traffic that those shared accesses will require. The commission would request a report from the Engineering Department concerning •the recerit al:legations of waste deposited in the wooded area of the western portion, and ask that the Engineering Department contact the E.P.A. and determine the validity of those allegations with an on site survey and report their findings by the Octciber 12th meeting. The commission further requests that the Wal=Mart traffic consultant submit their most current figures to Larry Griffith, the city traffic engineer, as soon as possible for his review and subsequent correlation of those resuits with other surveys that the city has had performed in the past for those areas during busier seasons. The commission requests that Wal-Mart present a lighting plan with poles no higher than 20 feet and in that plan indicating the illtuninatian area of those lights and the subsequent diffusion. The pedestrian walkways from Dover Center sidewalk access does not show a completed aecess from•Dover.Genter and it is requested that there be a raised walkway similar to tYie ane between Kaufmann's Department Store and the Great Northern Strip Shopping Center where there are also access cut aways in the raised platform for traffac> whieh gives a clearly delineated pedestrian walkway to the developmenta The plans must clearly show that the future expande'd parking areas do not violate the integrity of the mound in the northwest corner of the development (the. plan submitted this evening does show these spaces dramatically impacting that mound). 'The cornmission also requests a magni.fied representation of the main Lorain Road driveway cleaxly indicating the climensions of the drive, the sidewalk and t31e loeation of the sidewalk along that drive since there is some doubt as to whether a sidewalk can properly fit within that access. That a board on board fence be installed from the truck dock to the property line to confine bloiwirig cTebris and also that such a fence be installed' on the top of the proposed mound, seconded by B. Gorris, and unan:i.mously approved. During the framing of the motion, Mr. Thomas advised the developers that the mmbers were not entirely Enthusiastic about the way the building.looks, the facade, ma.terials, etc., and will more than.likely request alterna,te facades and building materials and will ask the Architectural Review Board for their recommendations on those materials. Also, Mr. Skoulis questioned.if the expansion as shown should be included on these pians since it was mentioned that this would indicate, in spirit, approval of the 30,000 square foot expansion. Mr. Thomas suggested that the final recommendation to council would indieate th3t the 30,000 square foot expansion would not be'part of either the approval or disapproval, it was merely on the plans to shvw the implication and the impact of that possible expansion. Mr. Conway noted that no exact location of the ground sign has been determined.. Mr. Thomas asked that-, - since it has been determined that sign variances would be required, theses should be specified to the Architeetural Review Board. Mr. Gorris rECOmmended that since there is so much time between meetings, all plans should be submitted to the Building Commissioner and City Engineer about 2 weeks, or a min-im»m of 1 week, prior to the meeting. The traffic study should be presented as soon as possible. Mr. Newberry explained that the plans were being changed as late as 3:00 pem. and apologized for the lateness of the plans. V. COMMITNICATIONS: Letters from residents regartiing Wal-Mart will be attached to the minutes of this meeting. 9