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was involved in the planving cominission meetings so Wal Mart.would not be at Dover and Lorain. She maintained that she had;heard nothing about Wal Mart comiug to Brookpark Road and she had no say in it. This place is near her and she is objecting to it being there. She suggested that they convert Handy Andy into a Home Depot what else can it be converted to. Best is big, they are not out yet,. but the Home Depot is not being built. She noted that there were other empty stores which others. have mentioned. She mentioned the embarrassment wheri people say "Oh, you live in North Olmsted; I didn't want to live there because they have so much stuffthere". She did not think North Olmsted could be considered a bed room community, we. are a retail community. She noted that she was told when they first were iooking for.homes in North Olmsted that North Olmsted was in the Guiness Book of World Records because of all the fast food restaurants on Lorain Road in a one mile area. She noted that the developers said no commercial traffic on a residential street, but she does not live on a residential street, she lives on Columbia Road, and to get in and out of her condominium she and the tenants of the apartments have to go out onto Columbia Road. She questioned if retail was going to make a difference in her taxes, and her taxes have gone up since 1980. If Handy Andy and Uncle Bills could not make it here, how can Home Depot. She asked that the plauuing commission consider the unpact that it has on them as residents, not the impact that it has on the retailer. She again asked if this was necessary. Mr. Jett, 24776 Mitchell Drive, north of the property deseribed. He wanted to speak of Home Depot, and advised that their headquarters is in Atlanta, Georgia, and are a fine marketing company, he does not intend to knock them and he has shopped there on several occasions in Atlanta. He stated that their products are good; but they are the same products that he could get at D.I.Y. Builders' Square, Lowes, or Sears. D.I.Y. is four miles to the east, Builder's Square is six miles to the south, perhaps Lowes is 10 miles to the east, and Sears is right in our shopping center. He listed some products that are sold by these stores, and noted that many of these products are also sold by Wa11VIart. He did not believe that they needed one competing with another by the same developer. He believed that it was amusing that the city cannot.support office when they approved office a few years ago, and tonight he has heard. that one of the reasons that offce is unattractive.is because there is a retailer, Wal-Mart, across the street. He asked why they are there. The same developer that put Wal-Mart over there is putting Home Depot here. He asked why did this developer "shot himself m the foot". He believed that maybe the reason the plan does not work was because they hire people who eall the east end of the properry the west as was opened tonight in the description. . Ms. Pilesie, Jamestown Condominiums, mentioned that the developers said with the building of the Wal-Mart the value of the office property had diminished, she stated that when Wal Mart .was built, she could not forgive the city administration for not notifying her, otherwise she would have spoken against that too. She will never set foot in that store, she just gets stuck with, the traffic. Brookpark Road is so bumpy and lumpy; that she is concerned about the- condition of her car. Wal Mart is there and the traffic is coming, and now, these gentlemen have said that, because there is a Wal Mart across the street, the value has diminished, therefore lets go for the complete kill and put up another one which is the equivalent of that or worse. 5he would like tu have North Olmsted returned to the residents. Support the local business, not have outside people come and make the dollars off our backs and leave us here with closing stores. .. Mr. A. Miller, 25090 Arlington Lane, who advised that the Building Department knew him quite well because he had to phone about every week about debris m his back yard from mercantile establishinents about 100 feet away from him, since the wind seemed to carry the debris into his yard. He stated that he lived in Cleveland and the inner city seemed to be much cleaner than where he is living now. Every time 9