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Intra -Governmental Relations Committee Councilman Marrie: No reporttonight, Mr. President. Thank you. COMMUNICATIONS Council President Brossard: Are there any letters or communications to come before Council at this time? Council Clerk: No, Mr. President. Council President Brossard: Thank you. We will now move into audience participation. Thank you for attending tonight's Council meeting. Council meetings are not a debate, and public comment speakers should not expect a back -and -forth exchange. If there is anyone in the audience who would like to address Council, please come to the podium, state and spell your name and address for the clerk. If you live in a city other than North Olmsted, please state the name of that city and proceed with your comments. You will have up to five minutes. Mr. Jim Burns: Jim Burns, 3978 Dover Center Road, and I apologize because I'm a little delinquent in getting into this thing, only because 1 didn't even know about it until I read an article in the Westlife last week. Ordinance 25-12 deals with the safety school crossing thing, and the way that the Ordinance is entitled, it says application for a grant. It does not say for specific projects. The Ordinance itself does not include an Exhibit A, so I question whether Exhibit A is even part of this Ordinance. But let's assume that the items in Exhibit A are the ones that are going to be sent to ODOT for approval, those specific projects, instead of just a grant for the total review. And I have a problem with the Lorain Road crossroad. This thing starts with a median of about 100 yards or 100 feet long with a crosswalk in the middle of it. The beginning of it on the west end, is where the sidewalk from the library comes along the driveway and comes to Lorain, and that's the very end of the median; the median stretches to the east away from it. You're asking teenagers, and we all know about teenagers, to go walk down the sidewalk from the library, get to that corner, and then say to themselves, well, I'm going to walk 50 feet down here to use that crosswalk, which has no flashing lights or nothing that I know of being proposed, to cross the street. I'm just going to run across here, where I'm at, and that's the way they think. So this thing isn't going to do anything to help stop that problem. The other problem is the median will prohibit, will eliminate left-hand turns from Lorain into the library. And you are also, because of designing the exit to the driveway, no left-hand turn coming out of the driveway, for the library. What this does, more than half of the people who go to the library from this city, come into it from Lorain Road, and they make the left turn into the library. What you're going to do is direct all those people to go down to Butternut, where the real crossing problem is with kids going across the street. We're just going to increase the traffic down there. The other thing is the left-hand turn for people going home to the west, you're going to eliminate that, which means they have to go out the driveway, and they're going to add to the traffic on Butternut, 02-18-25 Council Meeting Minutes - Page 7