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1 <br />(gitu .?? ????? ???tjob9 hto <br />MINUTE: OF HEETIiVC OF THE PLANNIl'1G COMMISSION <br />Augu st 22, 1967 <br />Ta <br />II. <br />Roll Call <br />The meeting was ca.lled to order at 8:05 P.M. by Chairmaxa Wal-ter <br />Spaldinga Those present wes e Mssrs. Jack Fsga-r, Tn'alter Spald.ing' <br />Norman MusialA Anthony LaPonza, ti;illiam ccheeff. Not present: <br />James Prolcasy, Thonias Fabek. Also prasent: Frank Dutton' Citg <br />Engineer; Caz•1 Bohm and Larry Ga.bin, Reg2ona.l P1ann:Lng Comntission; <br />Bruce F{itchen, Law Ilirector; Gally Henkle, 'clecretasyo <br />Reading and Correr.tion of Minutes <br />Mr, Fabek's na..me s-ras a.dded to the cornrn3.ttee woricing on the Arnold <br />L. King Request for Rezoning. Mx•, I,aPonza moved to dispEnse with <br />the reading of the minutes of 8/8/67 and to npprove as corrected. <br />Mr. Esgar seconded the motion, !tyes: Spalding9 Esgar, Scheeff,, <br />iAusial, LaPonzam <br />III. Old Business <br />(a) Regional Planninp, Commission Report - Carl Bohm introduced Larrp <br />Sabin who gav'e a .reporic on the Comprehensive Business Study including <br />f.tture gotential and dema.n.d within North OZmsted and the surrounding <br />communities incl.uding Fairview Pa.rk, Day Village' Rocky River? <br />Westlake o Using the amount of bLtS1.I1P.SS floor space as the indicator <br />of demand and breaking down businesses into the following classi- <br />fications: Coravenience goo,,s ana services, shopping.goods and <br />services, auto sales and services, commercial amusement and <br />officess it was determi.ned that North Olmsted presently has a total <br />of° 1,l,.089000 rqua,re f°eef, of business floor space which is approximately <br />113 of the total business floor space area in the five communities <br />under studyQ In order to answer th.e question of what we can expect <br />in the future and whq, we must . determine the trade areaso 'ckie logical <br />area that an.y business could expe?t tO draw trade froms how mtach money <br />people in f.hese aseas have to spend on certain goods or serviees and <br />the trade areas they w3.11 be drawn to. The five community area FraB <br />divided roughly into twelve ahopping districts, three of which <br />are Iocated in Idarth Olmsted.. Great Narthern Area9 Clague R.oad and <br />Lorain Area, Stearns I?oad a.ud S,orain Area. About 1/2 0f a1I businesses <br />in Nox°th Olmsted rsaw are :isz the Gxeat Northesn Area. At present' <br />783,000 square feet of busirbess space are in tlais area. It is , <br />anticipated that by 19859 this same Gr@nt Northern Area will have <br />1,250,000 square f'eet of busine,s spacea 180,000 square feet of <br />growth is expected in the Stearns Area and 1f0a000 square feet in <br />the Clague Areae About 1/2 0f aIl expa.nsion probablgr w3ll be in <br />the Stearns Road - Los°ain Area. Accord3.ng to atud3es, the North <br />Olmsted area can sapport appx°ax3.mately 45 ariditioua.7_ acres of <br />convenienee and shopping good.s biasinesses not ancluding automobile <br />salea wh.ich woulcl account for 10-15 acres adciit,i[.onal area. Commercial <br />amasementB could eover 15-25 additional acses and other related.