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E) North Olmsted Evangelical Friends Church: 5665 Great Northern Boulevard: Proposal consists of adding addition to the eYisting building, a family life center, expansion of sancti.iary, new classrooms and offices. Note Variances will be required. Chairman Tallon reviewed North Olmsted Evangelical Friends Church's request and called all interested parties forward to present their proposal. Mr. Shirkey, Pastor Schultz , Mr. Sheffield came forvvard to present their proposal. Mr. Shirkey suggested the church would like to pull the front facade of the sanctuary forward enabling them to eYpand the sanctuary. There will be a new narthex to the front of the building, relocating the existing porch closer to the street. This will enable the church to have circulation around their sanctuary that will lead to a new family life center . The family life center will have a kitchen, music room, counseling room, storage room, and restrooms. The addition to the south east of the building will house classrooms, reception area, and the senior Pastors office. The site is 1500' feet long but is very narrow. The parking area now facing Great Northern Blvd. currently has a 20' foot setback from the property line. The church is asking to be allowed to come within 13' feet of the property line to maintain the front parking. An entrance has been added to the proposed northern addition to accommodate the parking lot being 400' feet away from the church. The church would also like to add 7 additional parking spaces to the existing south east parking area. There are random length fences placed along the back property line as well as a continuous mounding. By code the rear setback is to be 75' feet, currently the back of the building is set at 50' feet from the rear of the site. The church is asking for a 13' foot rear yard variance. The rear mounding will be continued as well as white pines added to the mounding to buffer the surrounding neighbors, as well as landscaped islands in the parking lot which will include white pine trees. The lighting for the parking lot area will be high pressure sodium as required, and stand 25' feet high. The e,cisting sign will remain in place, but the church would like to raise the sign up about 5' or 6' feet. The reason for raising the ground sign is to be able to still see the sign from the road if cars are parked next to it. Mr. Tallon asked how high the family life center stood. Mr. Shirkey suggested it stands 28' feet from the ridge to grade. The family life center rvill also serve as an athletic programs department. Mr. Tallon question if the front parking lot was sunken down-word from the main road. Mr. Shirkey indicated Mr. Tallon was correct the southern 3ra of the sites topography drops off. Mr. Tallon suggested the landscaping along the front proposed parking be very heavy. He would also like to know what would be along the back of the building. Mr. Shirkey reviewed that their is existing mounding and white pine trees would be added. Mr. Brennan voiced he is concerned with the proposed mounding on the south east corner of the lot, as the road behind the church is called Allendale Drive and they have had some serious flooding, introducing additional mounding makes him concerned as to what that might do to the e;cisting flooding problem on Allendale Drive. He is a.lso concerned about what the developers are going to do to protect the residents from noise that live behind the proposed additions. Mr. Shirkey indicated he is working tivith the Engineering Department to develop a retention plan to take care of the water. Mr. Brennan suggested a masonry wall be placed atop the mounding. Mr. Shirkey suggested he prefened trees as it was softer, and asked why a wall. Mr. Brennan sugaested Evangelical Friends Church hosted a lot of community functions which generate a lot of noise in their parking lot. Pastor Schultz suggested there would be no windows on the east side of the additions and that would buffer the noise. Mr. Shirkey added that all the activities would take place indoors. Mr. Tallon questioned how close the church is to the residents on Allendale Dr.. Mr. Shirkey suggested he was not sure, and as the residents front on Allendale Dr. he believes there is about 150' feet to the residents. It is Mr. Shirkeys opinion that a 5' foot mounding with white pine trees every 6'feet would buffer the noise. Mr. Asseff asked Mr. Deichmann what was causing the flooding in the area. Mr. Deichmann indicated that the storm sewer system that went through that subdivision from this ditch along the church property was about a 24" inch pipe, the pipe under Great Northern Blvd. was about 4' to 6' foot in diameter and there was more water coming under Great Northern Blvd. then what the subdivision could handle. Recently the Engineering Department constructed a relief sewer that picked up the storm sewer under Great Northern Blvd. and a weir was put in place to direct most of the flow into the new relief sewer. There is just enough to go through the eYisting ditch to keep it as a functional channel. The relief sewer runs from Great Northern Blvd. down to Butternut then to Columbia were it rejoined the outlet sewer were the-diameter of the pipe is a sufficient size, and empties into the valley. Mr. Asseff questioned if placing mounding along the east side of the property would be sufficient. Mr. Deichmann suggested they could put in perforated drains as an eYample. Water 6