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?. ! • this size initially. In reference to the hours of operation, Mr. Bingham advised that the Brooklyn and Macedonia stores will be open from 7:00 a.m. to 10:00 or 11:00 at night with no restriction of when truck traffic is allowed and the compactor might be operated prior to and after business hours. Mr. Conway advised that North Olmsted does ha,ve a restriction an delivery hours. Mr. Bingham stated advised that the noise level of their compactors was minuscule even compared to the noise ordinance of the city. He further stated tha.t typically there would be 4 to 8 truck deliveries a day by Wal-Mart trucks and all of them would use the loading dock. Mr. Newberry clarified all delivers were made by Wal-Mart trucks fran a distribution point and their are a minimal number of trucks, there might be a Federal Express or U.P.S. delivery on occasion. He advised tha.t Wal-Mart recycles all packaging and normally stores it inside the building where the bailer is located, occasionally they might have some of these bales outside. Mr. Gerrity was sworn in at this time, and advised that he has visited 3 stores and the baling done inside is stored outside in the parking lot. Mr. Conway advised that if they wanted to store it outside they would have to designate an area and Planning Commission could require screening. Mr. Gomersall stated tha.t the figures they are using are incorrect and would put tlie buildings closer to Brookpark than.the condominiums. Mr. Newberry responded that the figure is about 6 feet off. They located the Colebrook Condominituns in reference to the Brookpark boundary line and the northwest corner of the condominiums to the Brookpark right of way which is 332 feet, so they are encroaching a little bit further by a nominal amount. He advised that what they are offering far more landscaping than is required either by the code or by the agreement with Biskind in return for this encroachment. They are proposing to add over 200 trees to the site, along with mounding and screenin_g to maintain a broken up facade so the parking will be hidden from the street. When a 6 foot tree is placed on an 8 foot mound it will equal 14 feet and from grade the store would not be seen. The only lighting on the rear of the store will be wall mounted lamps over the frame of the emergency door and is only intended to wash that area and would be behind the mound. Mr. Bingham clarified that the wall pack tmi.ts can be shielded and focused down so that there is no spill over and they would achieve that same effect in this portion of the parking lot so they can achieve a lighting pattern with no spill over. Mr. Purper wanted to make sure that Mr. McKay and the residents were aware that if the 100 foot setback is maintained, that there can be parking and truck traffic back there. Mr. Skoulis stated that he was at the Planning Conuni.ssion meeting and there would be no parking back there, there would anly be an 8 foot mound, a 6 foot fence, an emergency access road. The members did not understand it this way. Mr. Gomersall understood that Planning"Coimnission had offered to landbank parking, but the developer would be within his rights to paxk cars in 75 feet of that area or have trucks driving through and that would be worse than having 75 foot of green. Mr. Purper is concerned that the residents do not understand this when they insist on keeping the 100 foot setback. He wondered if they would not rather look at the wall. Mr. Gomersall would like 75 feet of green area with the 8 foot high mound and a 6 foot fence on top with evergreen planted on each side and with low lights that will not go over the hill. He could not understand why they would want the store on the other side so they would be next to the parking lot with all the lights and traffic. Mr. Skoulis stated that the Planning Commission ha.d asked the associations to take a poll on that. Mrs. Schuler advised that the petitions that were submitted tonight and those submitted previously had two sections, the first stated that they did not want Wal-Mart at all and the second stated that if it had to be there, they would prefer the store with the truck docks and all by the Corporate Center. They would 8