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ti Planning Commission 7-10-73 -3- mending them for office-residential. 1Vew subdivision areas are indicated. Various elements of program are to be pre- sented to the citye July 15 is conclusion of studya Three documents are to be presented: Comprehensive Plan; Land Planning Regulations and Capital Improvements Program. CarZ BoY-nls name will be on the civer letter. Maps are frozen now. Some details may still be considered. Plan itself is at printer's. There have been revisions since April 5. Official street map was shQwn. It goes along with chapter to be added to code, preserving land for public use. Desir- able street patterns in areas to be developed were shvwn. Planning now taill give City opportunity to review proposals of developers. Map shows areas owned by city and school board to date. Street patterns reflect ideas presented and have good subdivision design; showing a number of access points and avoidance of land locked parcels in the future. Proposed parks are shown also areas in process of acquisi- tion by city and school board. There is need for three ad- ditional elementary schools. The present high school is •adequate with addition and taith new vocational high school. Plan is to conver-t Pine School back to original use as junior high school, which along with addition to existing junior high school will be adequate. Mr. Ernest of I,orain Road asked about existing retail use on Lorain Rd., if it will become non-conforming under new plan. He was told Planning Commi.ssion will be doing extensive study of this matter in the next month. Planning Commission now has starting point to make this study. Joe Corrigan of Brighton Drive asked about termination of pro- gram and if Citizens Advisory Committee has had suffici.ent rapport and input to Regional Planning Commission. He asked if Regional Planning Commission takes precedence over wishes of Citi2ens' Advisory Committee in matter of Stearns Rd. The m2tter of Stearns Rd. is the only overriding of Citizens' kd- visory Committee. This happened because transportation agen- cies have Stearns Rd. existing in planning stages. A lady from Zorain Rd. inquired about pre-described criteria, upon w hat is it based? She was told a tremendous amount of excessive commercial area would develop along Lorain Rd. un- der present zoning. Desire was to reduce area of retail. Each community is individual. Capital Improvements reflects for next five years recommenda- tions that have been made for Community Facilities P1an. Mr. Svoboda had talked with all departments in the city regarding their plans and desires for the next five years. He was ask- ed if facilities being recommended are financially feasiblea Fiscal structure, debts, revenue, millage, evaluation, tax structure have been studied, and comparisons made with other communities are shown in Table 3. Projected valuations are