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EMS and Dispatch for their roles in making that happen, but also thank the Administration and
<br />the Council, for all of the iterative steps that have been taken to make it so that we have three
<br />squads, that we have EMS that has the best technology that can be had right now. That costs
<br />money. I don't know, you know, with ARPA and other funds going away, if that's sustainable in
<br />the future. That's something you'll all have to work on. But, you know, again, my daughter, who
<br />very much is enjoying safety town this week, gets to keep her grandfather. And, you know, he
<br />didn't have to go through open-heart surgery. He didn't, he will be able to continue to be the
<br />grandfather he has been, and so I'm very grateful and just wanted to say thank you.
<br />Council President Brossard:
<br />Thank you, Representative Glassburn for everything that you touched upon, and most
<br />importantly, we are so glad to hear that your dad is going to be okay. I've had the pleasure of
<br />meeting him many, many times over the years, and he's a good man. So thank you for sharing
<br />that.
<br />Mark Grabo:
<br />Good evening. My name is Mark Grable, G-R-A-B-O. I live at 27100 Driscoll Lane in North Olmsted,
<br />and I'm a daily user of that Brookpark extension between Dover and Lorain Road, sometimes
<br />many times a day, and I understand there's a proposal to do a road diet on that extension road.
<br />I understand that one of the reasons you're saying you need to address is a speeding problem
<br />and a supposed lack of parking places. I've lived in North Olmsted over 20 years, and before that,
<br />five or ten years before that, my parents lived there for all those years. I have never seen an
<br />accident on that stretch of road. It's a nice, wide road. It's got four lanes, not five like your website
<br />says. The website says five. There's only four lanes there, and when you narrow that down, it's
<br />going to get tight. And I'm very concerned that when people are backing out of that parking, it's
<br />an angled parking. You're going to back out of the parking. It's going to cause more accidents
<br />than you've ever had there before, and I go by there all the time, and every once in a while,
<br />there's a lot of cars in the parking lots, but I've never seen it full, and there's plenty of room across
<br />the street, down the street, and they share their parking lot just like in my office we do. And I
<br />have some objections, is the angled parking, I think, is only going to cause more accidents
<br />because people are backing out. People are doing 25 at least down that street, and when people
<br />back out on an angle with these big SUVs, you can't see around them. And you're going to have
<br />kids on the road now going in and out of the cars, and now the guys driving on the road have to
<br />look for the drivers, they have to look for the cars, and they have to look for the guys in front of
<br />them because there's not two lanes they're using anymore. So that's one of the main things. I'm
<br />also concerned... It looks like the plan has it, if you're coming off of Dover Center Road, you can
<br />get onto those angled parking OK, but if you come in the other direction, what, they've got to do
<br />some kind of modified U-turn to get into those spots? It's going to be a little bit difficult. And the
<br />lanes are going to be tight because to get that angled parking, it's a pretty wide spot you have to
<br />get. So that's going to be a problem. And I thought, has anyone thought about in winter, what
<br />are you going to do with the road? How are you going to plow the road? You're going to have
<br />parking on the side, and you can't, well, OK, we can't park there, we're going to have a parking
<br />ban. Well, that negates your parking, you know. And where are you going to put the snow? So
<br />that's one of the things. And I'm a little concerned with the fire department because I live on
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