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R. Koeth made a motion to approve Daniel E. Margulies (Pepper Joe's Restaurant) of 24532 Lorain Road, will the following recommendations: They are to replace the wood fence down below with a board on board fence. There will be a right turn only onto Lorain Road on the exit sign. They will do the lot consolidation before they can proceed. They will make sure there is curbing on the back parking with the exception of the area with the man hole. The parking lot will be paved. The motion was seconded by K. O'Rourke. Roll call on the motion: K. 0'Rourke-yes, C. Allan-yes, W. Spalding-yes, R. Koeth-yes and S. Hoff-Smith-no. Motion Carried. Mr. Koeth indicated they will move on to the Architectural Review Board. Mrs. Kilbane announced that the Architectural Review Board will meet on Wednesday, November 20`i' at 5:30 and no further notices will be sent out. 3. Halleen KIA; 27726 Lorain Road. Proposal consists of approved plan returning due to the removal of the building fronting on Porter Road, new plan is to use the area to store automobiles. Note: Signage will require variances. Engineering Department requires all parcels to be consolidated. Mr. Suhayda and Mr. Farrell came forward on behalf of Halleen. Mr. Suhayda said the project before the board is one they have seen before. They received all the approvals over the last few years and in the meantime they have done the engineering plan. They received all their permits and the project is under construction. He said what they have tonight runs parallel with the project. The owner decided to take down one of the buildings that was originally shown to remain. The building has been removed and in lieu of the building being on the site, they have car storage that was added to the project. He said they are present tonight for the car storage, one light pole, and they added a sign and some fencing. Those are the revisions to the Porter Road property. Mr. Koeth asked if they got prior approval from the city engineer before making any changes. Mr. Farrell indicated they did get approval for the demolition of the building. Mr. Rymarczyk confirmed that. Mr. Koeth mentioned the memo the board received from the engineering depariment indicating there is a temporary driveway on to Dewey Road. The engineering department did not receive any prior notification of its installation. There was no approval of the temporary driveway. Mr. Farrell said he is not aware of an access road off of Dewey but if it would make sense with the amount of construction going on and the need to continue with their business. Mr. Spalding said they would need a permit first to do that. Mr. Rymarczyk said they would have to go through the engineering department. Mr. Farrell indicated he will take it up with the contractor, Klesta Builders. Mr. Koeth asked Mr. Deichmann, the city engineer, if there was any type of submittal or approval of the temporary drive. Mr. Deichmann indicated there was not. 1VIr. Farrell said it would be addressed first thing in the morning. Mr. Koeth said he would have the trucks come in off of Porter Road until they do get the approval. Mr. Farrell indicated he doesn't know if those vehicles can get if off of Porter but it will be addressed. Mr. Spalding said it affects the board's concern about what the applicant has done in the past and what they will do in the future. Mr. Farrell pointed out it is the contractor's job to handle the permits and they will look into it and get into compliance. Mr. Koeth said they can have trucks come in off of Lorain until they get approval. They have to come in off of Lorain or Porter and they can move stuff around to get through. Mr. Suhayda said the original plan had a building located on Porter. The building was removed. They received previous approval for removing that building. In place of the building they are placing 14 additional cars in storage and one light pole, a 250-watt metal halide, and they are adding a fence along the northern property line. Mrs. O'Rourke asked if it will be paved. Mr. Suhayda indicated it will be paved to match the paving on the whole parcel. Mrs. Hoff-Smith asked what kind of fencing they will install. Mr. Suhayda said the fencing will match what they proposed before and what was approved. It is a 6 foot high vinyl fence, which is the same as the one on Dewey. Mr. Spalding asked if it is residential property to the north on Porter. Mr. Rymarczyk said he believes it is commercial. Mr. Farrell it was all discussed with the owner of that property and he has no problem. Mrs. O'Rourke asked if the light pole reflects only to the parking lot. Mr. Suhayda said yes, it has the same cut-off luminary as they are using on the other side of the property. It is a total of 12 feet. Mrs. Hoff-Smith asked if all the lighting issues were addressed and if they are at zero foot-candles at all the lot lines. Mr. Suhayda said yes, they are at zero on Porter and with the cut-off luminary they will be at zero on the north property line. They are only 1 foot candle out in the middle of the lot. Mr. 0'Malley said he would like to point out that when the matter came before the Board of Zoning Appeals, when the structure was still up, when they presented themselves to the Board of Zoning Appeals and the Planning Commission, there were representations made as to that building continuing to exist there. They proposed some parking spaces in front of and around that building as to how that site was going to be used. In fact, they were granted variances by the Board of Zoning Appeals for the display of vehicles within the setback from Porter. They intended to use those variances to display their cars on Porter as they show on the plan. However, since those plans were presented and the approvals were granted, they now have a changed condition. Before, with the building there, the plans showed some use of a driveway area as it currently exists and a lot of the traffic would appear to be crossing the neighbor's property. He does not know if an easement is