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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Tuesday, February 17, 2015 Page 2 hereinafter issued be deemed to allow the owner of the premises to use the detached garage as a second habitable dwelling unit. The garage structure inay not be used as a habitable dwelling unit. The issue that we have and the issue that we placed before the BZA was, there are a number of issues, but specifically and most importantly, one, that the structure is not a garage structure, it's an additional structure, but most importantly is that there is no authority in your Code anywhere where it says that a second structure cannot be used as a habitable dwelling unit. It's simply not in your Code. We raised that and other issues to the BZA and as you can see, they denied the appeal and affirmed the letter/decision of the Building Commissioner. We just urge the Council to overium that decision and therefore overtuin the September 8, 2014 decision if you will of the Building Commissioner. If there are any questions, I will entertain them. If not, I thank you for your consideration tonight. Council President Buckholtz stated, thank you for your comments. Does anyone else have any comments at this time? There were none. CONSIDERATION OF MIIVUTES : ltegular Council Meeting - 3anuary 26, 2015 Mrs. Mills, seconded by Mr. Marquardt, made a motion to approve the minutes as written. ROLL CALL: AYES: All Motion Carried NAYS: None January 26, 2015 Minutes Approved COMIVIENTS FROIVI MAYOR RINKER Mayor Rinker stated, kind of a bittersweet night in a lot of ways, but before I get started I first want to tell everybody the expressions of coniiolences you provided for my mother's passing away really were very much appreciated. I promise to get back with everyone who has written. We got a lot of notes and appreciate it. The family definitely appreciates it. But I mention my mother because tonight we are recognizing two very accomplished women whose services have been greatly greatly needed, enjoyed, and whose retirement or departure is going to be greatly missed. I can tell you that if my mother were here, she would be bending her ears trying to find out more about what you were doing. My mother was a backyard naturalist. She used to work for lawyers and she even fostered a son who is trying to carry out the good name. It's a very special niglit. Before I read the Proclamation we prepared, we did receive a letter from Rick Tyler, a former compatriot who apologizes for not being here. Mayor Rinker read a few comments from the letter, "I literally can write volumes about all the projects that we worked on together that run the gambit of solving flooding problems caused by North Chagrin beavers, working in the wee hours of the morning calling in and tracking coyote groups, chasing down a rabies crazed coyote at North Chagrin, controlling evasive plants, spotlight surveys of deer, your amazing data records of thousands of Canada geese. Then when you let me assist you with some mapping of Mayfield Village wetland, I had no idea how much physical field time you would be putting into the project. I can never think of the Mayfield Village wetlands without associating your signatures of land stewardship, interpretation and data gathering and overseeing its progress from golf 11