The Planning Commission of the City of Hudson, Ohio, met on Monday, May 13, 2024, at 7:30 PM in Town Hall, 27 East Main Street, with Chair David Nystrom presiding. The Industrial Design Subcommittee (IDS) convened earlier at 6:45 PM to review case PC 2024-111. The Commission considered two public hearing items: an updated design approval for 5640 Hudson Industrial (Geis Company) and a conditional use request for the Preserve of Hudson, a 29-unit townhome development. The meeting included a roll call of all seven commissioners, the swearing-in of testifiers, and discussion of correspondence, the prior meeting minutes, and a Comprehensive Plan update.
Monday, May 13th. So we've all begin the meeting or the meeting of the industrial design review subcommittee. Thank you. I'll give a brief introduction. We have one item to on the agenda today for the subcommittee. Um that is for Gemco Medical or GemCore families. And that the site plan and design were previously approved at the March 11th 2024 meeting. And the applicant has followed up with staff on on revisions. So just on a high level. Thanks for your time tonight. Matt Edwards, generation two of GemCorps family of companies. Allows us to have all 50 states. So mail order. So the separate part of the building versus being attached is for separate address needs. Yeah, there's on the left. Yeah, that's the 2001. So the archways and things like that are incorporated into the new building. So when they're next to each other, they'll be for the similar window size. So right now we're simply out of space. Our pharmacy has six employees in 2023, and we have now 14. Uh one additional pharmacist and eight additional support staff. So we have been growing and we're out of space in the existing facility, so we're we're moving into this spot. We looked at building a 5,000 square foot building. We've been vested in Hudson for over 25 years. No, actually, we've moved into Hudson 20 about 25 years ago, the business from Twinsburg. And so we decided we want to you know build a bigger building here. So that's a 10,000 square foot building versus five to get some economies of scale on building. More space than we need today, but we're looking to expand into it. So the considerations today are uh on the east elevation. We're going to be removing that mandor and making that a window, just like the other side. That's important to us to make that look like from the street. So this here would be the same as that. So we made that we're gonna make that modification, and we're going to move that door to the north elevation. So these two this this north elevation is not really visible to the street, and then the west elevation is not visible to the street. So that will give it more symmetry from the street facing area. So it's needed for the eagle. If you say anything, we need you to have it that might be. Oh, sorry. Yeah, I'll I'll I'll be quiet and then I will uh let the experts talk. But um so we're just we're we think the east and the west, I'm sorry, the north and the west elevations are in dense wooded wetland areas. You got your microphone now? Dust they're in uh densely forested areas that really wildlife's the only thing seeing them, and it's really I don't know if there's an overhead view, but you know, we added the water table to the bottom around the wrap the yeah, ground, but if you look around the woods here, you know, this area will be fully masoned and then the the building facing the other building for the parking lot. These two here will be completely invisible to the general public questions do you have for us? Timothy you're the you're the architect expert, I'm just the guy yourself from Rene Jimenez again from uh Geist Companies. So just uh I mean Matt pretty much touched uh based on all the points that that we came back for. But um our initial March 11th meeting, uh we had some comments from from you that were to elongate the windows and to add more masonry to screen the rooftop units. So we should once we started looking at all those different uh uh requests for comments that the proportions of the building started to change, and then that evolved into creating the you know the book ends of the front facade, bringing in uh different material to kind of to uh uh define the facades a little bit more, uh also bringing in that center arch entry that relates to the entrance right across from the parking lot. So our goal was to take into consideration your comments at the same time, design a building that is aesthetically pleasing for for you know three fours for the size, the back is still has the same characteristics as the warehouse that we recently built. Uh it mimics in terms of colors and textures. Um that so the whole uh so this building is a little bit of uh of picking and choosing different details and colors from the existing buildings.