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Regular Council Meeting Minutes <br />8-16-10 <br />Page 4 <br />become in our government process and perhaps you would say made me a little bit paranoid about <br />giving up our ability to restrict corporations and businesses and how they act in our Village. <br />So when Charter Review wrote a Charter amendment that would dramatically reduce the rights of <br />individual homeowners to protect themselves from being forced to live next to commercial or <br />industrial properties, it definitely hit a nerve. It's hard for me to believe that the smart and decent <br />people on the Council would expect these ordinances to be happily passed by voters. <br />I would like to point out that Pepper Pike has a similar zoning change restriction that we have. They <br />have done far better than say Mayfield Heights at preserving a residential feel to their City. This is <br />what we want. We are not radicals. We do not want to push outrageous ideas, but zoning changes are <br />not small issues and one's property is in general for most people the very most important valuable <br />asset that they have so protecting it is wise in my humble opinion. <br />I would like to mention something about the Charter committee itself. There were at least two people who are very strongly pro-development on that committee. There were a number of people <br />who were either sick, too busy or unable to come to meetings, and whether this is true or not I don't <br />know because I have not seen the Minutes of the Charter committee that made the final <br />endorsements of the Charter's, the amendments that would be submitted to the voters, but I heard via <br />the grapevine that there were only three people at that meeting and that is not a quorum and I don't <br />know if it's necessary to have a quorum but I would question the legality actually of those decisions <br />that were made on that fateful evening to put these Charter amendments on for the voters to decide <br />on and I would ask you to check into that, check into the legality of issues that are passed by so few <br />people and whether it's true or not that there were only three people at that last meeting. <br />I would, I noticed in the amendments, or the proposed issues for this evening that the Mayor has <br />submitted an ordinance that would be, restrict zoning, well I haven't seen the ordinance but it seems <br />like it's an amendment to the MarquardtlParker amendment that Charter amendment that had said it <br />was restricted to one family dwellings. And I would urge you not to pass this amendment and put it <br />on the ballot. I mean it might be a perfectly good amendment but it feels rushed to me. <br />Mayor Rinker stated, I don't know what you're talking about. <br />Mr. Saponaro stated there's nothing on there. <br />Ms. Butler asked, there isn't? Sorry, that's good news. <br />Mr. Saponaro stated, there's not an amendment that was introduced by the Mayor that contradicts <br />what the Marquardt/Parker amendment says. Everything is introduced by the Mayor and Council as <br />a Whole. <br />Mrs. Cinco asked, 2010-34? <br />Ms. Bodnar replied, 2010-24, it says Third Reading and 2010-34 says First.