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have 8-foot board on board fencing atop 8-foot mounds tapered to the surfaced parking area. The area will be 49-feet from the residents to the fence itself then an additional 25-feet of landscaping to the edge of the pavement. Buildings "C & D" have been moved closer to Brookpark Road. Board members questions and concerns: 10'Irs. Hoff-Smith brought to Mr. Berryhill's attention that the current plans showed 6-foot mounds with 6-foot fencing not the 8-foot on 8-foot as he suggested. 1VIr. Berryhill indicated that they were trying to create a western-style storefront appearance. The parking ratio that they have used which includes full retail parking and the landbanked parking works out to 6.3 per thousand feet at grade. They know that they require O.D.O.T's approval for the three entry-drives proposed. The only full access way will be the entrance, which will lineup with the existing traffic light. Mr. Koeth questioned if the traffic survey had been started. Mr. Berryhill commented that they currently have the funds for the traffic survey in escrow but have not started the survey as of yet. He suggested that there was a traffic study of the area in 1994 for a retail building built for Biskind Company, which they could pull. They were not sure if Planning Commission was going to require a traffic survey for final approval or not. Mr. Hreha indicated that a traffic survey must be done you can not use a survey from 1994 that would not cut-it. Legacy conducted a traffic survey and they have had nothing but traffic nightmares since they opened. He further suggested that one survey might not even be enough. Mr. Berryhill indicated that a traffic survey would be conducted in accordance to the Cities ordinances, so hopefully it will be appropriate. 1VIr. Koeth questioned the flow of the traffic within the site itsel£ Mr. Berryhill suggested that although the architect has assured him there would be no trafFic problems at the main entrance he thinks it needs to be improved upon. Mrs. Hoff-Smith is concerned that the main entrance will become a traffic nightmare due to no directional lanes on the site. There is only one main entrance and the other two curb cuts are entrances with right turn only exits. Their main entrance will become bottlenecked throughout the holiday season. Mr. Berryhill felt that the right turn out was best, as most cars will be heading to the mall. Mr. Spalding voiced a concern about no traffic lanes within the site itself and agreed with Mrs. Hoff- Smith that the main entrance will become bottlenecked as traffic will be cutting across parking spaces to get out. Mr. Berryhill suggested the reason there were no main traffic lanes was due to Target not wanting traffic lanes. He suggested that Target preferred to have the traffic filter through the parking area. Mr. Spalding commented that according to plan C1.1 there is only one entrance for the residents of building "B" on the rear northwest corner of the building. Mr. Berryhill indicated that that area was for the retail space and it is a loading and unloading area only. The entrances of building "B" for residents will be two different stairwells located at the northwest and northeast corners. There will be no elevators in this building or lobby area the residents can stop long enough to drop things off then park in the underground garage. Mr. Spalding questioned why the commission only received south elevations of the three outer proposed buildings and a west elevation of the proposed Target building. He questioned if the three other elevations were submitted or not and what they will look like. 1Mr. Berryhill suggested the only reason there is one sided elevations is because it has not been given to the architectural staff as of yet. This proposal will require a series of variances. As they are not sure of what the Board of Zoning Appeals will grant them in way of variances they would like to have Planning Commission send them to the Board of Zoning Appeals. Once the Board of Zoning Appeals grants their variances, they would then submit complete plans. The three major variances that are needed before they take the project to the next level is, 1). A height variance for pillars 2). A ratio variance for use percentage and 3). A variance for a Super Store being located within '/2 mile from a highway interchange. Mr. Koeth indicated before these goes any further the forester should review the site to determine what trees should remain or be removed. Mr. Hreha commented that there would be a ton of trees removed to develop this site. He would like to see the developer work with the forester to replace all those trees removed over a certain 4