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PRD Meeting 11-25-02 Page 23 Mr. Samac said we have a gentleman in the audience who has pretty good firsthand experience with that. [He was referring to Judge Krenzler.] Council President Buckholtz said I have a comment on what we set forth here; well, I have a couple of comments. One is just so I understand, there is the several items that were voted on by P&Z specifically but Council's job here is to take those under advisement but we're passing the entire ordinance, is that correct? Mr. Samac said that's correct and certainly to look at the entire ordinance. Council President Buckholtz said so even if there's something that didn't come, I mean in the issue of whether, in the final vote of P&Z, that's important as the process that you guys went through, that everybody went through to get to those compromises. I mean there's things that weren't even voted on by P&Z that are in this, that we need to look at and have the power to change or modify, or strengthen or loosen. Mr. Samac said yes, because some. of the numbers were pretty much boilerplate numbers that came from the proposal that David Hartt had drafted, other numbers, some of the setbacks and that, were items that everyone just seemed to agree on. There wasn't any vote, it was a consensus.... Council President Buckholtz said I'm not trying to drag it out and reinvent it, I just wanted to clarify that in the final analysis we're not voting on-Council as a body is voting to change-to approve, amend or not approve this as a new ordinance-as a new zoning classification. Mr. Samac said in its entirety. Yes. Council President Buckholtz said one thing I'd like to point out right now is that in this equivalency consideration, Dave Hartt, in his memo of June 17th, in the 2°d paragraph, mentions that, I mean, I think he's the one recommending the equivalency consideration and I mean, it lends itself to having some resilience or flexibility in our guidelines. But he does mention that to be consistent with the way we handle commercial projects currently it still goes before Council, Council reviews the actions and it needs to be added as an additional step in 1159.10; it's not in there-Council's review is added. It needs to be determined if Council reviews both the preliminary and the final development of the plans or only one. Is that in there? Mr. Samac said that is in 1159, specifically, in both instances-both for the preliminary and for any final approvals; yes. The final development plan is covered--- Council President Buckholtz said and I know it came up at one Workshop, did we want to kind of change the way that we did things and I believe it was Mr. Marquardt was pointing out a kind of checks and balances system of the Board of Zoning Appeals, the Appeals Board, the Planning & Zoning Commission and Council and a113 having different perspectives and different jobs on it that we can work off each other.