Committee members used the July 8 meeting to press ZoneCo for tailored recommendations for Cedar Road rather than a straight copy of the Warrensville Center Road district. The consultant told the committee the Cedar Road corridor differs from Warrensville Center in parcel depth, housing stock and pedestrian environment.

The consultant’s notes, as summarized to the committee, compared lot depths: Warrensville Center Road lots average about 175 feet deep while Cedar Road lots average about 135 feet. The consultant also counted roughly 110 single‑ and two‑family dwellings on the residential portion of Warrensville Center Road between Washington and Silsbee, compared with about 70 such dwellings on the comparable 0.67‑mile stretch of Cedar Road. Committee members said those differences help explain why the two corridors may need different standards.

Committee members discussed several changes ZoneCo could include for Cedar Road: allow R‑2 multifamily in select blocks; permit townhouses and duplex conversions by right in some areas; use the neighborhood commercial district as a middle ground for lots that are deeper; relocate sidewalks inward where tree lawns once existed to improve the pedestrian buffer; and require buffers and screening between new development and adjacent backyards. “If the pedestrian experience is not improved, then Cedar Road may be more effective as the city's commercial corridor,” a committee member said.

Members and one planning commissioner noted that some portions of Cedar Road have wider sidewalks with no tree lawn because the right‑of‑way was altered in past street work. They asked ZoneCo to provide concrete alternatives — not just an explanation of constraints — so the committee can state which options it favors in draft 2.

No zoning rules were adopted at the meeting. The committee agreed it is generally open to multifamily development on Cedar Road in R‑2 where site planning can address parking and buffering, but it asked the consultant to return with specific tool‑box items (setback options, required buffers, sidewalk relocation approaches and neighborhood commercial use lists) for the next draft.