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understands we need commerce, he is a little annoyed at the people who probably live outside the City of North Olmsted and shop outside the City of North Olmsted and want to congest some of our local residential streets with traffic with their businesses. He is a little concerned with how the idyllic neighbor hood that a nursing home once existed in is now being turned into a massive concrete area where there is going to be a lot of noise and trucks making deliveries, as the gentleman said. He is concerned with the volume traffic on Dover Center Road as well as Porter Road, as we all know that we are not just talking about the development of a food store, were also talking about a drug store over at the corner of Porter Road and Lorain Road, were talking about the development of a junior high behind Pine School, were talking about increasing tra.i?ic in that area. With increase automobiles you have an increase in the number of accidents you can go down Dover Center Road and count the skid marks now. In that particular area your going to have trucks short cutting from Center Ridge Road down Porter Road and down Dover Road to get to this store, that is a fact. We all shop at a grocery store it would be close to me but it's not really what he wants as he can go to the Rinni's, or Finest or any other fine places around this area. As a resident and someone that acutely aware of what is going on in North Olmsted as fare as safety factor is concerned he is posed to this mega store being located at Mills Road, Porter, Lorain, and Dover Center. Ms. Vansack from Douglas Drive, who has lived on the street all but five years of her life, put a call into the manager of the store that is there now and he said it was 59,000' square feet, and that would be a 30 percent increase in footage and she is worried in order to maintain you are going to have increased traffic and are we going to expect a 30 percent increase in the traffic and he said there is 17,000 people that come in out of that store now, which would take us up to 21,000 thousand people going in and out at least. We have tried so hard to keep it residential. Her concern is people coming from Bretton Ridge, and Park Ridge cutting down our residential streets to cut off the corner and to get in and out of the store by Mills Road. She believes the best thing to do is close the entrance on Mills Road to the site. Mr. Gurm a resident from Porter Road who has been a resident just over a year. It is a very nice street but he has had to put up with the noise that comes from Water Tower Square right now, trash compactors, garbage trucks that come in the morning, and the semis. He also works for the City of North Olmsted so he lives so close to work that he can walk to and from work. At lunch time which is not that busy there are over ten cars a minute up and down Porter Road, not to mention the seventy cars per minute that travel Lorain Road, which he counts on his fourteen minute walk to work. If you are talking an increase the amount of cars that are going down this street. During rush hour time 6:00 o'clock 7:00 o'clock 8:00 o'clock in the morning traffic is backed up to the Unitarian Church which he lives next to, that is 2 tenths of a mile. We have a new computerized traffic system in this City and it's doing it's best to control traffic. Close to the weekends, Holidays, and Saturdays traffic is horrible. Saturday afternoon at 11:00 o'clock traffic on Dover Center is backed up to Porter Road. To actually to have a super store of this magnitude in here were are these people going to go, were just building more congestion. The developers indicated on a small day they get two deliveries from semis and heavy days they can get seventeen, right now if a North Olmsted bus runs more then ten minutes or if there is a truck at James lumber that runs ten to fifteen idea time in the cold weather the North Olmsted Police Department goes and shut them down because their air vents because their air vents are picking up those fumes now were adding on an average two to seventeen trucks a day, and you know the truckers in cold weather are not going to shut the diesel down while they unload, they will be running. The only nice people right now is McDonnalds he rolls in shut his truck down 8