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PRD Meeting 11-25-02 Page 31 property for some of these other properties. I'd brought this up once before that we could possibly bring up or trade off property with people who want to rezone these things, put it in the Northwest Quadrant on the northeast corner if you will and set up a development like that which would be better controlled which we would not have as many access points coming off of S.O.M. or a main road, they'd all be going onto the Commons Boulevard and you could set up one development with these types of homes and it would probably be awin-win for everybody because you would minimize the number of streets, minimize the number of lost areas that you have in these small parcels that we are looking at that are potential candidates for this. You're going to move an awful lot of acreage to roadways in these small lots whereas if you can trade them off and put a bigger development, trade off the property with people, I think you'll have a better looking development than what we're going to see with all these little ones springing up. Mr. Marrotte asked, may I speak to that point? Mr. Marquardt said certainly. Mr. Marrotte said I sit on both the Planning & Zoning and the Board of Appeals and the people that sit on Board of Appeals are good people. But when it comes to the nuances of why Planning & Zoning has a code in such a particular area, the Planning & Zoning people are far more knowledgeable in what was intended and what's been discussed than the people of the Board of Appeals. So if there's a little variation that is needed and you are going to go through the deal of going to the Board of Appeals for each and every small variance, the people that are making the decision are not the people that are most knowledgeable. It's the people of Planning & Zoning that know why it's 35 feet and not 20, or why it's atwo-car garage and not one. So I think there's a good reason for having that section in the code. Because you're going to allow the people who know the most about why the zoning is written the way it is making the decisions. Council President Buckholtz said well you're exactly the person to talk to this particular situation because it was there when it was being discussed in the meeting. Now you sit on both commissions, both boards. I mean, isn't it a Charter decision that has them both set up to act off of each other but act independent? Mr. Marquardt said yes. Council President Buckholtz said I mean the situation that Mr. Marquardt brought up at the time is that it gives Council the flexibility that if one group says "YEA" to a scenario and one group says "I~iAY", then it comes to Council and we're hoping-your characterization was that you guys are more knowledgeable. Well, that's a problem. We need to make Board of Appeals more knowledgeable then. Do you know what I am saying, I mean, we should have 2 bodies examining it with 2 different perspectives or 2 different charges if you will. And if they make the same recommendation or opposite recommendations then Council has something substantive to go on in how it discusses it. Mrs. Mills said I think what Wes is saying when you go to Planning & Zoning they really go into an in depth discussion--where at the Board of Appeals there isn't the magnitude that you find in Planning & Zoning; don't you think, Wes?