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Council Minutes of 6-7-2005 • The Rotary pavilion in the pazk is a concern. Apparently, there has been some tree damage to it. The commission was assured this would be addressed. • The Recreation Commission will not meet in July, and the next meeting will be held the first Monday in August. Councilman Gareau commented that he had submitted a proposal to the Charter Review Commission to change the Council membership of the Recreation Commission. Presently, the Council representative has to be an at-lazge Council member. This causes a problem when the Council Recreation Committee chairperson is a wazd Council member as was the case this year. Hopefully, the Charter Review Commission will give consideration to changing that provision so that the Recreation Committee chairperson can serve on the Recreation Commission. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning and Development Committee: 1) The Building, Zoning and Development Committee met on two separate occasions and the only items discussed at both meetings was Resolution 2005-80 to approve and adopt the 2005 Master Plan. • On Monday, May 9, the meeting was limited to a 1 % hour presentation to Council by City Planner Kim Wenger on the Master Plan. The plan was approximately a yeaz and a half long process consisting of a steering committee of 17 volunteers. The committee met publicly, and there was a consultant who worked with the committee who put together the document that was presented to Council. It is a lengthy document and is available to anybody who would wish to purchase it from the city for the cost. At the inception, the plan sought to identify certain goals and objectives of which there were six: land use development, economic development, housing, infrastructure and public facilities, open space and recreation, and community character and image. To give some identity to these six goals and objectives, interviews were done with various public officials at the inception. Also, focus groups were held. Members of the community were invited to come forwazd and share their thoughts and opinions on those different azeas. They did express their wishes and concerns, and their thoughts were incorporated into the document itself. It is an exhaustive plan, but it is a plan that requires further action. By way of further action, it has recommendations as to what would take place throughout the city in those areas. The one that brought the most attention to the committee and the residents was some suggestions with respect to rezoning. The committee did key in on three focus areas within the city that it thought were most in need of attention in the identifiable future. One area was the west end, which is primarily the light industrial zone on the west end of Lorain Road. It is essentially undeveloped up toward Lorain. There is residential use more towazd Bradley. Another azea is the Crocker/Steams corridor. The committee discussed the fact that, once Crocker/Steams comes through, some of the homes will be less than 40 feet from the street. There are approximately 30,000 cars per day that will be going through there with some curb cuts as close as 80 feet. It poses a significant hazard to not only the residents and the motoring public, but it will have a significant impact upon the 9