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4 PLAIVNING COMrffSSION tIARCH 11, 1980 PAGE 2 (c) Minotti's Drive Thru Beverage, 27100 Lorain Rdo Proposed addition and alteration to existing abendoned auto wash. Mr. Gundy introduced the proposal and explained the plans. This is basically a drive thru beverage store with little pedestrian traffic. The car 6aash will be rebuilt and will operate in conjunction with the beverage store. Because of the traffic conjection at Dover Center aad Lorain Roads, Chairman Bugala stated that he would prefer that this proposal be studied by the Safety Director prior to any action by the Commission. R. Perla moved to table Minotti's Drive Thru Beverage plans until a report is received from the Safety Director, seconded by B. Gorris, and unanimous ly app rove d. (d)- North Olmsted United Methodist Church, 4600 Dover Center -Rd. Proposal to add a community facility to= an existing ehurch.. Mr. Thomas Moore, Architect, explained that the addition would provide a'more conventional roof structure which will be seen from the street. Also, that a parking lot with 52 spaces (47 are re- quired) will be paved and drainage will be provided. Secretary J. Brown read a letter from P"'?r. & Mrs. Andrew J. Szaniszlo, 27319 Benwood Circle, expressing their concers about the p roposal. They stated no objection to the addition to the church, however they are concerned about the northward expansion of the parking - lot. The concerns s-tated were: 1) Water -runoff from the parking. lot`:to the =open..drainage basi_n and into a 36 inch pipe (a ra.ised , aspfialted lip. on the nor-thern edge of -the .parking_lot =was sug- gested as a preventative- measure), 2) -The open-r water=runoff re- tention basin containing stag;aant wa-ter is -an attractive nuisance and a health hazard 3) A paved parking-lot will further jeopar- dize the security of the homes on the south of Benwood, since cars are parking there late at night and people are using the lot for access to the b ack of prope rty on Benwood (A gate is suggested as a solution) 4) A paved parking lot will attract mini-bikes and children on bikes (again a gate is sugges ted) 5) That the solid hedge required by the Board of Zoning Appeals, March 5, 1980, will not eliminate the eyesore since the parking lot will extend too far north to allow suceessful planting of such a hedge and that water-runoff could droc.n the hedge and eliminate the re- quired screening (an esthetically pleasing fence, not chain link, would be more satisfactory and would prevent a precedent for a future westward parking lot expansion into the wooded area behind the other southern residences on Benwood Circle). In response to the state-ment that "In May, 1978, the church requested..a deviation from code from the Board of Zoning Appeals...", Chairman Bugala explained that a church was a permitted use in a residential dis- trict and that the requirement of a special permit is the method by which the City controls tlze building and expansion of any church.