VILLAGE OF EVENDALE
SPECIAL PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING MINUTES
JULY 19, 2005
EVENDALE MUNICIPAL BUILDING
The Special Evendale Planning Commission (EPC) meeting was called to order by Acting Chairperson Richard Shaffer at 6 PM on July 19, 2005 with EPC members Chris Schaefer, Council Representative, Michael Schwartzman, and Susan VanAmerongen. RalphTerbrueggen, Architectural Review Board was also present. Jim Guthrie was not present with an excused absence. Village staff present were James Jeffers, Village Engineer, Jack Cameron, Ass’t to the Mayor, and Linda Fitzgerald, Village consultant on economic development. Representatives from Anchor Properties, TEC, and Formica were present as well as interested residents.
CONTINUING BUSINESS
The purpose for the meeting was to engage in continuing dialogue regarding the Anchor Properties proposed Site development and to review the traffic consultants’, TEC, studies for both Reading Road at the Site East entrance and variants of plans to facilitate ingress/egress on Inwood Drive.
Traffic Analyses. TEC presented the two options for Reading Road traffic at the intersection to the Site. Option 1 removed the center islands from the entrance to a point 400-500 feet south on Reading Road. This allows dedicated left turn access into the Site both at the entrance and to the outlot businesses on RR south of the entrance while maintaining two lanes northbound on RR through the intersection. Option 2 would take approximately 15’ of ROW from the East Side of Reading Road and jogging the northbound lanes of Reading Road to allow a left turn lane into the Site. North of the intersection the two continuing lanes would jog back to the current Reading Road. TEC explained that this option made left turns into the Site less desirable due to the additional traverse across the lanes with oncoming
southbound traffic due to the island blocking some of the view. It was TEC’s view that Option 1 was preferred for traffic safety reasons. TEC then showed four concepts of preventing unwanted traffic on Inwood Drive which involved tees and roundabouts. It was agreed that more detailed work would have to undertaken in the future to account for the potential use/traffic from the Village land banked properties as well as potential expansion coming from the Surgery Center.
Anchor Property Site Development. EPC reviewed the pared down list from both the Anchor overall site as well as the Site A-1 lists which before comprised 16 and 22 pages of comments. The list reviewed reflected both input from Staff as well as EPC and contained seven areas: Traffic, Legal/Marketing, Topographical/ Infrastructure, Mill Creek, Architectural Features, Landscaping, and Development Features. Following a thorough review of the list and discussion of all the items, it was agreed that the remaining list of items would be discussed at the special EPC meeting scheduled for July 30 at 9 AM. At that meeting the proposed request for Site development will be voted upon along with the Final Plat and Subdivision submittal. This EPC vote to recommend approval/disapproval will then be forwarded to Council for a
proposed vote at the August 11 meeting. For the July EPC meeting input will be required from the Village Solicitor, Staff, Landscaping consultants, as well as the Applicant prior to the vote.
On a motion by Susan VanAmerongen and second by Chris Schaefer, the meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM by a vote of 3 to zero (Michael Schwartzman had left the meeting for another commitment). The next special meeting is scheduled for July 30, 2005.
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Richard Shaffer
Acting Chairperson, Evendale Planning Commission
Attest:
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Dick Shaffer,
Secretary Evendale Planning Commission
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