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.?' , . CITY OF 1lTOR'I'H OLIVISTEI) rrTOGETFIER VVE C:AN 1dIAKE A DgF'FEIdENCE" ARCFIITECTiTRAL REVILEVV BOAIgD NHNUTES - li'IAY 30, 2001 CONFlERENCE ItOOlVI 5:30 P.M. I. ROLL CALL: Chairman, Zergott called the meeting to order at 5:35pm. PRESENT: Chairinan, Zergott, Board inembers; J. Nader, M. Yager, K. Schulz, and T. Liggett. ALSO PRESENT: Building Commissioner, D. Conway and Asst. Clerk of Commissions, S. Solomon. H. REVIEW AND CORRECTION OF MINUTES: III. SIGNS: IV. OLD BUSLNESS: V. NEW BUSINESS: 1) Charter One Bank; 25290 Lorain Rd. . The proposal consists of 683 sq. ft. building addition / renovation, new landscaping, new paving and parking revisions. Note: Planning Corrunission recommended variances be granted 4/10/01. Board of Zoning Appeals a anted variances 5/3/01. Planning Comrriission heard this proposal again on May 22, 2001. Chairman Zergott called all interested parties forward to review the proposal. Leroy Vandegrift, the architect, and Jim Lance, Senior Vice President' for Charter One Banks, came forward to review the proposal. N1r. Vandegrift indicated that he had new drawings and he would be explaining why they had different drawings. Going through the site, the existing building will have additions of approximately 12 ft. out on both east and west sides. The reason that the bank is expanding is to create more room within the facility to help their costumers and they want to improve tra1?'ic flow for the costumers and the community. They will remove the entrance that is directly behind the light at Great Northern Blvd., which causes tight traffic jams. The entrance will be landscaped over. There is an access road next to the Charter One site and they plan on utilizing that road for costumers to be able to leave the bank there. The State of Ohio owns the road and land there and they had an agreement with the church, which is behind the bank, so what the bank did was go to the State of Ohio and the church and all three have an agreement so that this road will become an exit off of the property so that people can turn left or right coming out at the light. The other thing the bank is going to do is, currently there is one drive up window, they will put in another drive up window so that traffic moves easier throughout the lot and it will cut down the requirement for a lot of parking. The other thing that the bank has done is they've taken all of their employee parking and moved it to a rear parking lot off the site. They have an agreement with the office building in the back to be able to do that. The agreement is for 8 parking spaces. The other thing they are doing on the exterior is making the dumpster disappear by placing it behind a parapet wall at that location. The HVAC equipment on the east side of the building will also be hidden with this wall. The reason our drawings differ from your drawings is that the Board of Zoning Appeals recommended moving the entrance over and they changed the parking handicap location also. This makes it easier for handicapped people to get into the entrance of the bank.