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:, . , . ? s .? lighting with minimum lighting for security and all lighting maintained at zero foot candles at the property line; and also showing dimensions of the canopy Mr. Koeth would like to see a picture of one. of the rooms. R. Tallon moved to table the Homestead Village Hotel proposal until the next available meeting in order to have the revised prints as recommended, with the new prints indicating size and number of the rooms; driveways conforming to code; with signs conformimg to ordinance; lighting shown on the print; the extension of the canopy detailed on the prints; and a picture of the standard room. The motion was seconded by D. Cameron Alston. Roll call on motion: Tallon, Cameron Alston, Koeth, and Manning yes. Mr. Herbster abstained. Motion carried. Mr. Herbster arrived during the above discussion. 2) Studio Plus, proposal to construct a hotel; location is located.on the south side of Country Club Boulevard, east of Victoria Plaza Apartments. Heard by plauuing commission July 23, 1996. Heard by board of zoning appeals August 8, 1996. WITHDRAWN FROM AGENDA, TABLED BY ARCHITECTURAI. REVIEW BOARD SEPTEMBER 17, 1996. Chairman Tallon called a short recess at this time. N. NEW DEVELOPMENTS AND SUBDIVISIONS: 1) Great Northern Properties Rezoning Request. This proposal is to re-zone approximately 25 acres of land located along the north side of Brookpark Road between C.olumbia Road and Great Northern Boulevard, from the existing zoning of Office Building District, to General Retail Business District. (Please note: approximately 2 minutes of the beginning of this discussion was erased from the tape, possibly when a representative of Great Northern Properties was making a copy.) Mr. Richardson, Brookpark Land Incorporated, was giving a backgrbund of Forest City Enterprises, the parent company of Brookpark Land, Incorporated, and their involvement in the restoration of Cleveland area and surroundiug communities. He maintained that it was important that all communities around Cleveland work together to make the greater Cleveland area a better place to live. When his company looks at an investment, they consider, not only what it will do for the company, but what. the investment will do for the community. He believed that this is a good project for this community, and if the city rejects Home Depot and these other quality retailers, it will be sending the wrong signal to retail business, and showing that North Olmsted no longer wants to be a major retailing center and the new stores will go elsewhere, taking their jobs and tax dollars with them, The.y have had numerous stizdies done by many consultants and are going to share that information with the comanission. They will be discussing the following: the greater Cleveland office and retail markets; the North Olmsted office and retail markets; economic benefits from the project; traffic impact of office versus retail; retail site layout compared to office; buffer zoning; impact on the neighborhood; and site lines of the development. They will give a video presentation at the end of the discussion that will actually show the difference between the impact of an office complex and a retail development on the residential area. He gave a brief summary of the biographies of their various consultants. David Hart, president of D. B. Hart, Inc., plamvng and development consultants in Cleveland who is an architect and has a master's in city planning; and Robert Hill, president of Robert Hill, Inc., a community plauning and landscaping architectural firm, who formerly did zoning code updates for North Olmsted. The following consultants conducted a seminar in North Olmsted recently, Christopher Lindberger, managing director and co-owner of Robert S' 3