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Regular Council Meeting 10-21-02 Page 10 1 C Zoning Appeals with but it's pretty close; we want to tweak it a little bit and we want to bring it ~, back and try something that is a little more acceptable to everyone. Council President Buckholtz said, if I may, let me try to restate this and I will defer to the Law Director. You want to withdraw the appeal to the BZA's decision, and then re-approch the BZA with a new and modified plan. Mr. Jiannetti said that is correct. Council President Buckholtz said then I will defer to Joe on the proper procedures. Mr. Diemert? Mr. Diemert said I think it would be appropriate if that's the applicant's position, he has the right to do that and the Council President should just refer it back to BZA for reconsideration of the revised plan and resubmit it to Council. It would not be inappropriate for him to speak to the issue itself because there maybe councilmen that are concerned about that as well as citizens. So, it might not be a bad idea for him to speak to that. That is up to you, Mr. President. Council President Buckholtz said I'm not sure at this point whether it's a total Council position-I mean-I would certainly be in favor of any attempt to re-work this or re-think this. I think that we are all-and we have scheduled a residents' meeting to discuss the overall issue two weeks from tonight which, again, it's a little misleading in there (if I may say so) and I apologize because my name is on this just to the residents who are here that it is a little misleading in of the statements that a 7,000 square foot building will be built. But I think what was more important was we wanted to get this out quick. We've all had numerous conversations, telephone conversations, with members of the community. Again, I see that as a positive thing but it's trying to get all the information on one sheet of paper and get it back to all the residents as quickly as possible, plus picking a date that works for everybody is not an easy thing. So, I'm just kind of flipping to that because we have some work to do on our end, the Village, the people in the Village have definitely - we have requested a hearing with the Columbus Board-and by the way, I'd like to ask [he turned to Law Director Diemert.] Mr. Diemert said there is no update as to the actual hearing date. Council President Buckholtz said we have no control over when Columbus will make this date. So I think that this sort of, it ties into coordinating the velocity at which this whole project moves. I mean, it is an appealing idea to me. Even if you are going back with an amended plan, and if I heard you correctly, going back with what is perceived as the Code plan that we will be discussing at the residents' meeting-in other words if you have the right to build that type of business there but don't have the right to have any variances granted, then you want to make extra sure that the code is exactly as BZA says it is. So we can open it up first for discussion to Council, I think, at this point, or we can open it up to the floor, or you can continue with your presentation or save it whatever. Mr. Jiannetti said I think that's your call. ~_ ~