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' Council Minutes of 5/1/2007 Director Limpert, Safety Director Terbrack and Sharon Schlemmer from the WWTP. Ms. Schlemmer gave a presentation on the reason for the ordinance and the various nuances of it. Discussed was that there were meetings to discuss this throughout the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District. Contributions were made as a result of that meeting and a compilation addressing the issue that better allows the City of North Olmsted to track the treatment, care, emptying of the various grease traps that are used by our restaurants and food services businesses in the city to minimize the amount of grease that enters the sewer system and hopefully to minimize negative impacts on our residential properties. Discussed was education of the various restaurant employees, and the problem with managers who come and go oftentimes from corporate offices. The people often do not know where the grease traps are located that are covered by pavement, and which haven't been serviced in quite some time. There are known trouble spots in the city where the treatment plant representatives try to enforce the current code but need a little bit more by way of this ordinance. Discussed was whether this should be part of the Building Code and that the location of the grease traps should be part of the plans submitted during building to make sure those are accessible at all times. Also discussed was the increased allowance of particles into the system. Of some concern, were the increased amount of petroleum oils being allowed into the treatment stream. The committee unanimously voted to hold the legislation in committee. Councilman Gareau, chairperson of the Building, Zoning & Development Committee: I) The BZD Committee met on April 24, 2007. Present were committee members Gareau and Orlowski; Council Members Barker, Jones, Tallon and Council President Kennedy; Planning Director Kim Wenger. The committee discussed Drug Mart, 24485 Lorain Road. (Southeast corner of Columbia and Lorain roads.) The proposal consists of facade renovations to the existing building and retail plaza plus site improvements. A plan for this came forward several years ago where they were simply going to leave the tired, worn shake wood facade on the top of the one portion of the plaza and do the rest in a very 1990's blue. That didn't meet with anyone's approval. As a result, now they have come back with a complete exterior renovation of the plaza. It shows some improvements for the community to along-standing building. The proposed changes for Drug Mart will include a new addition to the rear for storage space, which is hidden back from Lorain Road. There will be adrive-through addition on the west side of the building, which will remove some parking spaces. There's an improved entry tower element to the front closest to Lorain Road and new asphalt shingle roofing to replace the existing wood shakes, which will cover the entire plaza. It was brought to the applicant's attention that there were some maintenance items that need to be addressed, including damaged brick to be repaired and some graffiti on the building. The applicant agreed to take care of those as well as relocate the vending machines indoors. They will also be installing some benches and trash receptacles. There also are some landscape improvements which will include new landscaped beds at the entry of Drug Mart and around the drive-through area. The vinyl slat chain link fence which runs from the back of the lot all the way around along Nuevo Acapulco and the motel will be removed and the landscape buffer will be replaced. Thanks to the Planning & Design Commission for its insistence on that as it is quite an eyesore. There will also be a redesign of the parking field to restructure the paths of travel. There are no changes in the lighting proposed. 4