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Council Minutes of 4/17!2007 Alucobond material across the south service area and the front and side fascia, which is a silver material with matching louver sections in front of it. The service doors will be painted silver to match the new materials. Additional landscaping will be added to the new front entryway to the building, and the tree lawn along either side of Lorain Road driveways. There will be five additional spruce trees planted in the rear setback of the property to help shield lights from neighboring properties. For the record, it is noted that these tree plantings have been marked on the site with stakes by the City Forester with a neighbor and North Olmsted Nissan representative present. They are located in a place that the Forester believed, based on his professional experience, best shielded and would best be able to survive in that environment. Also, a concrete sidewalk would be added to wrap the face of the building and go to the east main entrance. Curb cuts are to remain unchanged, other than Nissan agreed to stripe the entrance and exit lanes of the driveways to clarify traffic patterns. Parking lot light remains unchanged other than the existing blue light poles will be painted silver. Additional changes that were required to be submitted to the Building Dept., which were submitted that night through the Planning Director, include a change in what they refer to as the landscape "bump" which was for a sign given the fact that a sign was reduced in size and now fits within the current landscape plan. Therefore, there was no need to encroach into the previous landscape area to create additional landscaping. The new plans submitted reflect that accurately as were presented to the committee that night. This was a deviation from the original approved plans by Planning & Design Commission, but it actually brought it back into the landscaped area instead of taking out of the concrete area. There was no objection from the Planning Director on that. Also, the stone area traversing the store front will be removed in its entirety. The concrete area will now round the southeast corner and run to the customer door on the east side of the showroom. That was also not presented to Planning & Design Commission, but was presented to the Building, Zoning & Development Committee. The Planning Director had no objection. The committee recommended approval as follows: subject to the recommendations of the various boards and commissions, with the exception again of the sign area no longer needed due to reduction in size, and the additional walking area and removal of the stone base along the front of the building; further subject to the requirement that the landscaping trees would be installed as represented and marked on appropriate submittals. The plan presented was consistent that night with these requirements and included the modified landscape bed, sign and removal of the stone bed along the south side of the showroom, together with the sidewalk wrapping around the building. Councilman Gareau made a motion to approve North Olmsted Nissan consistent with the recommendations of the various boards and commissions and the deviations delineated above. The motion was seconded by Councilman Miller and passed unanimously. Councilman Miller said he felt some 5