Good evening.

I'd like to call to order the City of Green Planning and Zoning Commission meeting for Wednesday, July 15th, 2026.

Please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance.

One nation under God is a liberty and justice for all.

Roll call.

Ms.

Anderson.

Here.

Mr.

Birch.

Here.

Mr.

Bishop.

Here.

Here.

Absent is Ms.

Chadsey and Mr.

Daniels also present.

Our summer intern Courtney Adam and our council liaison, Jeff Noble.

Thank you.

Okay, our first and only item on the agenda today is 26-14 Friendly Express Gas Station.

Would uh representative please come up, state your name and address for the record, and give a summary of your project.

Hello.

My name is Joe Persudo.

I'm the architect of this project.

Our address for the architectural services is 2850 South Arlington Road, Suite 200 Akron.

So thank you again for the opportunity to present the project.

Do a quick overview of uh where we're at and how we got here.

Um this is at the property of the corner of South Main and 619.

It's the old right aid that's been closed for a few years now, and uh our clients here have purchased the property and are intending to build a new gas station and convenience store at this location.

Um this is the site plan uh that was approved uh at the design review board meeting.

Uh we kind of took a few left and right turns to get here.

Um there were a number of changes uh that the planning department had requested uh to make this site function a little bit better and uh cleaner, and uh our client was gracious enough to kind of look at all the options and uh make adjustments as needed to satisfy those concerns.

Um essentially uh the biggest uh item that had changed from the original submittal uh was uh the owner has agreed to demolish the 20-foot of the existing building that faces Turkey Foot to gain additional circulation for the gas pumps and canopy.

So that bought a great deal of uh additional circulation.

Um at one point we also had a drive-through window on the west side of the building that was eliminated, uh, therefore kind of eliminating all the stacking spaces and other coordinating circulating spaces around the building.

Um so the overall intent is to take just over 6,000 square foot of the existing remaining building uh and have that as the convenience store, and then out on the south side between it and Turkey Foot.

Uh we have six gas pumps, a canopy that measures uh 40 by 94.

Um, and uh we've provided enough uh parking.

I think the when we ran the numbers through zoning requirements, we needed uh 20 parking spaces.

We currently provide 24 at the front of the building.

Uh there were nine existing spaces in the back.

We've added uh one additional here as well as eight additional on the north side of the building to accommodate a future tenant space.

So um I think in total we were required to have 29 parking spaces.

We ended up with I think 42.

Um so uh as far as site changes, we are still using the primary existing drives uh both off of Maine and Turkey Foot.

There's also a main drive to the plaza here on the north side of this building, and an access drive that's shared between uh other tenants in this development.

Um so all those are being maintained.

Um we're not encroaching on any other buddy any other property lines.

Uh we request no variances as part of this project.

Um, all our setbacks for the uh gas pumps, the canopy, we've met those requirements.

In fact, again, we're cutting back 20 feet of the building to accommodate some additional circulation.

We are adding a new monument sign out here at the corner.

It's roughly in the same location as the original right aid sign that still sits there.

And I believe we met all those square footage requirements as well.

We've proceeded with some of our civil drawings.

So we we've definitely shown that we've got a path through the site.

So I think there's multiple options there.

So we made sure we had ample room to turn in and around, especially on the interior pump areas.

We figured the exterior or the perimeter pumps would have much easier access than the interior.