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, ftl <br />? .4}. . <br />There are 18,000 vehicles per day passing through the Country Club Boulevazd <br />and Great Northern Boulevard intersection, represrnting the highest vehicle <br />count in the azea. This is evidenced by 2000 and 2007 Average DailyTraffic <br />maps. Traffic volume remains at fairly consistent on Lorain Road between <br />2000 and 2007. Increases are shown on I-480, Great Northern Boulevard and <br />Brookpazk Road between Great Northern Boulevard and Lorain Rnad. <br />New tragic studies were conduaed to further inform recommendations at <br />the intersections of Great Norchern Boulevard and Lorain Rnad, Brookpark <br />Road, Country Club Boulevard and Butternut Ridge Rnad. Addidonally tha <br />intersecrions of Lorain and Dover Center Road and Porter ltnad were studied. <br />? Parking recommendations <br />? <br />? The off-strat pazking criteria in the zoning code should be examined <br />° to determine if a reduction in pazking space requiremenu could be <br />accommodated to increase the amount of landscaping and naarral feacures <br />witlun parking fields. Shared parking azeas and/or linking parking areas should <br />be considaed throughout the study uea. <br />------------ <br />Figure 12: Parking areas: landscaping <br />r,... `?•. <br />` <br />_??9tr ??-?,. • ytA. .. <br />Figure 13: Landscape buffers screen parking <br />lor edges <br />It is pazriculazly important to soften the appeatance of surface pazlang azeas> <br />with trees to shade the paved area and absorb light and heat, and lawn and <br />ground covers to collea and filter surface runoff. Portions of all parking azeas, <br />both new and renovaud, should be devoted to landscape, with addidonal <br />consideration given to innovative storm water management elements such <br />as permeable pavers, rain gardens, bio-swales, bio-retcndon basins as well u <br />lcaving opcn space undisturbed. <br />12 1 The Great Notthem Multi Modal Transportation Plan <br />Figure 11: Existing parking edge on sireet <br />Figure 14: Pedestrian paihs in porking lots <br />Figure 15: Landscape islonds should be <br />designed tocollectand fil[erstormwaier <br />runoff from parking lot surfaces. <br />Figure 16: Bioswole