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Regular Council Meeting 7/17/95 Page 8 the culvert system in the Worton Park area because it is presently inadequate. He thinks the Village made Progressive make a bridge across the river that had to take a 100-year flood. We have culverts in the Worton Park area that can't take three or four at a time like we had last week. He wishes to bring to the attention of Council that this should be made an emergency issue for two reasons: 1) one area of North Woodlane Drive is undercutting the road and as a result of the storms we have had this past couple of weeks the Village lost the horizontal width of 2', so we are losing soil and losing property every time we have a storm. He is a geologist and knows pretty well what is going on erosion-wise. There are two creeks on his property. The downspout that goes out into the creek--two years after he moved here, it stuck out so far he had to cut it off and he cut off about 2'. Now, he is getting to the point where he has to cut if off again. The stream is no longer undercut. It is riding on the shale. Now, the stream is getting wider. As a result, it is starting to encroach on the south side of North Woodlane Drive and is already undercutting on the north side. This is an emergency issue. There are several people that are involved. It is something Council needs to do as an emergency issue. Larry Pollak, 6726 Wilson Mills Road said this is in regard to the rezoning of the two residential properties to commercial. It was his understanding when he originally built his property (he came to the Mayor and City Council at the time) that they were not going to allow any commercial zoning past where it presently was. He thinks it negatively impacts the home owners in that area. He has not seen any of the drawings of Deacon's and thinks it is premature--but he happened to hear about that and thinks that other residents are distressed about it. The residents were not told what was going on. Council President Fixler said Mr. Deacon has provided us with a model. It is not Council's power to change any zoning whatsoever, whether we are in favor or not in favor, of any change in any zoning. It would have to go to a vote of people one way or the other. It is not going to be the Mayor or the Council deciding one way or the other--it will be our constituents. They will ultimately decide. We will make available any plans and as the situation progresses, we will certainly try to keep you informed. Anytime you want some updated information, please come forward. Mr. Pollak asked if Deacon's makes a proposal that the residents at least be informed. He realizes it is not going forward as fast as somebody told him, so he may be a little premature. Mayor Rinker said by Charter, any change like this has to be put to a referendum vote to begin with. Jim Deacon is here tonight. They have had models here. T'hey are trying to collect the data and we have been informally discussing this trying to