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12-17-01 Page 15 Mr. Busa seconded the motion. Roll Call: AYES: All NAYS: None Council President Marquardt said let's go through discussion on this one. He clarified that the motion would be to amend the agenda to put this item on for first reading. This will put this motion to change the zoning on Wilson Mills on the agenda for first reading. Council President Marquardt asked if there was any discussion. Mr. Ilacqua said I am very reluctant to do this. I think it needs to move through the necessary channels, particularly an issue as iinportant to the entire community as a zoning change. I think it needs to move through the appropriate channels and committees prior to coming to Council for first reading. Council President Marquardt asked if there were any other comments. Dr. Parker asked if we could give Mr. Schiemann an opportunity to state his case. Mayor Rinker said by way of background, Mr. Schiemann contacted me about a week/week and a half ago. It became apparent to me that this is something he has been looking at since the summer, I understand. I will let Jeff speak to it. The bottom line is, over the weekend Jeff contacted me. I think he started contacting other people then further into the day. In order to have an opporiunity to address Council and initiate the process, (I am going into this point only in response to Mr. Ilacqua's concern.) I don't think there would be a person here nor within the community that wouldn't be seriously concerned about any proposed change of the zoning--certainly when we are talking about a residential area and one that lies in a portion of the community such as it is on Wilson Mills and I think these issues need to be scrutinized. If we had our druthers, the opporiunity to address these kinds of issues in a more deliberative fashion in order to kind of pave the way, I think is something we all would like. It is one of the reasons that I have talked in the past, and more recently, about setting up a master plan review committee. I have conveyed this even to Jeff. I think that on a good day we would love to have the luxury of sitting down and going through, reviewing, throughout the community various types of issues; not the least of which is looking at the current zoning scheme, the current land use and just in general, open up to discussion across the community the kinds of issues--economic, planning and you name it. Unfortunately, we don't always get to choose the timing on these things. Realistically, this would be about step number 4 in such a process. The fact of the matter is that Mr. Schiemann, who is a resident, has approached us. He has indicated he would like to have the opportunity to be heard. What this does is by placing it on first reading through our own zoning and planning scheme, through our procedures, is to give the community a chance to look at it in just that fashion, Mr. Ilacqua. What I would suggest you look at tonight is consider what Mr. Schiemann is proposing. This is a zoning change; Mr. Schiemann himself would also be looking to an actual project. Those are 2 different steps, but they tend to go hand and glove. I think that a lot of the questioning that will begin tonight should continue, frankly, not only on the floor of Council, should continue in Planning and Zoning Committee. I have indicated that I think we should promote within our neighborhood organizations some involvement. The broader based