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Pepper Pike council hears master plan to expand council chamber, add community room and pursue renewables
Summary
Architect Paul Deutsch presented a municipal campus master plan proposing an expanded council chamber (about 80 seats), reactivation of the unused second floor for administration, a 100–120-person community room and site circulation fixes; council discussed schematic-design authorization up to $96,000 and public outreach.
Paul Deutsch, the architect hired to study Pepper Pike’s municipal campus, told council on April 22 that a combination of reactivating the second floor and a modest addition could meet the city’s space needs without tearing down the existing building.
Deutsch said the needs-and-necessity program is based on standardized square-footage by job function gathered from department interviews, and that returning the second floor to active use would allow the building department to relocate from the basement and free space for a large community room below the council chamber. “What this spreadsheet represents is a complete space needs program of all of the buildings on campus,” Deutsch said, summarizing the study the council received.
The plan calls…
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