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Minutes of a Public Hearing <br />October 6, 2010 <br />Page 20 . <br />Mr. Farmer: One of the comments was about restrictive to Beta. That wouldn't have been a bad <br />idea either. Now there's other areas in the Village that are like Beta that I could see it <br />being applied to, but that's not a bad idea. <br />Q: The Mayor mentioned residential versus non-residential, why couldn't that be, couldn't <br />that be the Charter amendment? <br />Mr. Farmer: It could have been. <br />Mayor Rinker: It could have been, but bear in mind, that's why I ask this question, because <br />understand the process. When the Charter Review Commission was set up, ironically it <br />was intended to be a more populist approach. Now there were some questions last time <br />about how Commission members aze selected and I can tell you that there really is a <br />conscientious effort to make sure we get a cross section and people from our perception, <br />Council's perception are good citizens because they will be responsible. You can dispute <br />what the outcome is, but at least the idea is that these are folks who will get involved, roll <br />up their shirt sleeves and discuss these things. When they make a presentation by the <br />Charter, by the nature of the process, nobody can tinker with that. You vote it up or you <br />vote it down. It doesn't preclude following that this issue cannot be brought back <br />through a different ordinance for example, Council can initiate this, the voters <br />themselves. There are really three different ways that our Charter can be amended. It's <br />just that this sort of becomes the touchstone and it's a mechanism that's built into our <br />Charter kind of to force everyone to address these issues in some fashion. But understand <br />it's one aspect of a process that doesn't preclude the other. Once the Charter <br />Commission makes a recommendation though, we are really duty-bound to get it to the <br />voters. * * ? <br /> <br />Q: Okay, if this all has to do with Beta, why has not Council or the Mayor put this to the <br />voters before to change the zoning on Beta? <br />Mayor Rinker: Well, that's a very good question and in fact we have been looking at it. It's <br />been one of the struggles between Planning and Zoning, but we're not there yet because <br />it's not a simple black and white issue, but that's why. <br />Q: You look at it. You look at. You look at it. But yet when the Library issue comes along, <br />you have one reading, not three. It's emergency through and it's a done deal.