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PRD Meeting 11-25-02 Page 33 Council President Buckholtz said so you're talking about the difference between a development or somebody that's building something or rebuilding something as opposed to somebody that's making a modification on their property. Is that the distinction you are drawing? Mrs. Mills said yes. Mrs. Cinco said I think his point was that, as opposed to Bill Marquardt's that we need to keep that in Planning & Zoning. Council President Buckholtz said I understand that's the point but I just wanted to understand where he's drawing the line Mayor Rinker said the concern, I think, is when you talked about people who were there. It's not the personnel, it's the roles that they play. Mrs. Mills said yes. Mayor Rinker said and I think that's what Bill's talking to; what we're both talking to. Mr. Marrotte said I'm not talking about personalities or anything like that... Council President Buckholtz said no, I didn't mean that. I just meant you guys worked on this document but in the future-but I understand the personnel thing-you're saying you worked on a project, when a developer comes in and somebody wants to take a tract of land and work on it, they start with P&Z and they work with P&Z, they go through a number of stages. Whereas, you're saying that the Board of Appeals is more for apre-existing situationor, they may get variances thrown at them by a developer, but--- Mayor Rinker said P&Z deals with the paragraph, BZA deals with punctuation. Mr. Riter said I will say based on experience with a neighboring city government, that I actually was very surprised when I moved to Mayfield Village because in the neighboring community all variance requests start with Planning & Zoning. If there is a turndown at Planning & Zoning, then they have an opportunity to go to Planning & Zoning Appeals, which is the separate board. Well I think Wes is absolutely correct. I think that variances should start with Planning & Zoning and that may in fact mean at some point that we look at changing the processes. But Patsy and Bill, I mean both of them have sat on P&Z during the time I've lived in the Village and Wes, they know the processes of the projects they are working on. So when it gets down to the punctuation, they know what the developer is coming in with, why he's coming in with it; and/or the person that's making the change to their property. And they know exactly what's being requested. So, I do think the process could change and could be very, very positive. Council President Buckholtz said so let me try to recap this real quickly right here. So what you are saying is Planning & Zoning, if they have a positive attitude or a positive or an affirmation of a variance involved in a project of this nature, it goes straight to the Council.