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Minutes of a Public Hearing <br />October 6, 2010 <br />Page 17 <br />urgency to change the Village landscape such that we need to allow Council to rush into <br />deals with developers? <br />Mr. Fikaris: None of what you said was discussed. None of what you said is in the proposed <br />Charter change. There's the word "rush". Can you repeat your question? <br />Q: Thank you. I wanted to know if there would be any urgency to change anything with <br />regard to the landscape or the footprint of the Village as it is now that would be so <br />important that we need to give up our vote and allow Council to rush into deals with <br />developers and also something related to what you said, isn't it true that under the <br />proposed amendment, Council is not at all required to submit zoning changes to the <br />voters on the ballot unless they choose to do that in their sole discretion? <br />Mr. Fikaris: Yes, that's true. That was the proposed change. There is no rush. There's no <br />footprint. There's no difference. We felt from a maintenance standpoint as we go forward <br />in a community that we felt that to put ourselves in the best competitive light that this, we <br />proposed this change to be voted upon by the people. <br />Mr. Diemert: If I could add to that, Mayor, Ma'am started the question by saying "people moved <br />to this community and don't want it to change". Well, zoning referendum was not always <br />in this community. In fact, this community existed for decades without zoning <br />referendum and it has developed very nicely. It's a beautiful community. The zoning is <br />just perfect a11 around the community and all that occurred before referendum zoning <br />ever existed. The layouts of your industrial versus your commercial versus your <br />residential, all pre-date,referendum zoning being in your Charter. It wasn't introduced <br />until 1984 or 1985. So it's not something that this community was developed under. It <br />has xun into problems with people wanting to develop and to do subdivisions and either it <br />wasn't approved or it was approved but it took a year and a half or some people walked <br />away has been the experience since 1984. But there has been no major development that <br />the voters approved or disapproved that occurred in that time period as a result of <br />referendum zoning. It's all something that pre-dated it. So, folks who came here and <br />. loved this Village the way it was, they changed it in '84 and they can certainly change it <br />back if they so choose. <br />Q: Who's been here longer than 25 years? <br />