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MINUTES OF COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING APRIL 27, 1970 North Olmsted City Hall 8•15 p.m. This was a hearing on Ordinances Numbers 69-220 and 60-221. Those present from Council: President of Council Francis J. 0'Neill, Council- men Boehmer, Grady, Hodgins, Limpert, Speedling, West, Clerlt of Council Nora Hill. Also present: Mayor Ralph E. Christman, Service Director Charles Watts, Law Director J. Bruce Kitchen, Acting City Engineer Michael Karhan. President of Council Francis J. O'Neill opened the Public Hearing, saying this meeting is to discuss Ordinances Nos. 69-220 and 69-221. Mr. West read Ordinance No. 69-220 in its entirety. President O'Neill then asked if anyone in audience would like to state view in objection to Ordinance No. 69-220, first stating name and address. Mrs. Zipp, 29658 Lorain Road, corrected Mr. West who had said "southwesterly" instead of "northwesterly" as written in Ordinance. Mr. West requested Mr. Karhan to outline area described in Ordinance on map. This was done. Mr. West then explained the background stating a few years ago the seven counties traffic study which was set up by the Federal Government as it was in many areas of the nation, to study what kind of thoroughfares should be in the areas to make traffic more sensible, recommended in their report at that time that Brookpark be extended and the Northeast Ohio Areawide Coor- dinating Agency, which has to approve any federal grant for this area, has also recommended that Brookpark be extended, along with the Regional Planning Commis- sion. This is the reason the extension of Brookpark is now being considered and, Mr. West stated, what we are talking about tonight is not Brookpark extension as much as the rezoning togo with it and rezoning is shown on map and around Brook- park Extensiqli. President O'Neill requested area to be outlined by City Engineer for people in the audience to know what is being discussed. Mr. Peter McDonnell, 4752 Dover Center Road, asked how do you plan to deal with traffic on Dover. He does not want anymore traffic - on Sunday morning he cannot get out of his driveway. Mr. West replied he did not understand - why are we going to put more traffic on Dover Road. Mayor Christman stated that right now the heaviest flow of traffic on Lorain is between Brookpark and Dover. There is a great deal of right turn traffic from Lorain going onto Dover and the reverse, coming from Dover turning left onto Lorain. The extension of Brookpark into Dover would be done with a third lane ? for left turning on Dover into an extended Brookpark. He'stated he does not anticipate a lot more traffic going onto Dover and north from this extension, but that it does pull a lot of the traffic off of Lorain that is turning right onto Dover. :.?,. .. ? .. .. ... . . .. . . . . . .. . . .. . . ... . .. . . . ... , , .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .