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Public Hearing re Ord. 2003-18 7-14-03 Page 2 .- grown and they want a smaller place to live. This will provide a spot for them. This type of zoning is used on in-fill lots. Council President Buckholtz noted permanent parcel no. 831-13-017 appears incorrectly on the Public Hearing agenda; (as 831-13-007.) He clarified the correct parcel number is 831-13-017. Mrs. Roman noted the correct permanent parcel number was printed in the Notice of Public Hearing that was published in the newspaper. Council President Buckholtz said I would like to ask Mr. Diemert just to mention: we are not voting on it at this meeting-but at our Regular Council Meeting which will be later tonight--we will be voting on it, but just explain that all we are voting on is to send it to the ballot. It's our policy, -our Charter, that the residents vote on it. Mr. Diemert said this only permits the voters to make a decision whether or not we want a zoning classification of this nature. More importantly, it is something that voters have had a year or so to look at and quite a considerable time to study and will be open for future reference and use as well. Council President Buckholtz said Judge Krenzler has been a priving force with this project in getting a number of the Village Committees (2020 Committee, Planning and Zoning Commission) to establish this zoning classification. We have actually toured much of the eastern suburbs of Cleveland looking at developments that we didn't like, and developments that we did like and we `~ think that at least in terms of the artist's rendering, what is being planned for this site is going to be quite spectacular, something that will be an asset to the community. Mayor Rinker said the only other point: I think it is beneficial for everyone here to realize under our Charter any property that is going to be changed from its current zoning classification must be submitted to a popular vote-the referendum vote. Earlier this year, the legislative category-the classification-for this type of residential development was created. That went through a process where Council ended up passing the legislation as Council President Buckholtz noted. There was pretty extensive dialog (especially in the Planning and Zoning Commission) by the time it arrived at Council. But even though the category exists, it is still up to the voters to determine whether or not and where that category would apply; where that classification could be utilized. Earlier this year (we have shown you some drawings and I apologize not having them out in front of us now) but if you would look at some of the development changes that are going on on S.O.M. Center Road, one of them is the reason S.O.M. is closed right now-is the dip is going to get filled in. instead of a bridge to span the vale there, it is going to be 12' of earth elevated up so the roadway will be much straighter. In that location we are actually placing an underpass, a pedestrian underpass, which is immediately adjacent to Judge Krenzler's property. In fact, he's had to even make a little bit of an adjustment to accommodate what we anticipate would be the curb cut into the site that is part of this ballot issue. In all, there are 6 acres; 4 of those acres today are zoned commercially. They are zoned for an office-laboratory usage. Those are the ones that are further, deeper in off of S.O.M. Then the two other acres which front on S.O.M. which are currently zoned for single-family, residential, which in Mayfield Village historically has been essentially %2 acre lots (one house for every %2 acre.) _ t, This particular proposal: on the 6 acres, I believe, there will be 25 of these units so it means they are ~_~ going to be a little bit closer together. Mayfield Village, in anticipation of all this work, just about a month ago has purchased a property that lies immediately to the south or between Judge Krenzler's property where these are going to go, and Fisher's Tavern. So at the end of this process what we