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Public Hearing 4-21-03 Page 2 Mr. Diemert said these are the zoning districts that currently exist. It doesn't mean that any land has to be zoned into any one of those Districts. Indeed I think we have some that have no land that are zoned in that particular classification. Mr. Diemert said the Planned Residential Development District is sort of a cluster housing or a group of houses which are grouped together and the Building Commissioner will explain in more detail the details of this particular ordinance in a little bit. It neecds to be clearly understood that all we are doing, if this ordinance were to be adopted, is creating a resadential development classification. It only creates the classification. It does not create any land which is zoned in that classification. In order to rezone someone's land, the property owner or the applicant would need to come into the Village after this District exists and propose a plan which would show the type of housing, the type of density, the type of side yards, rear yards, buffers, and the location that they want to propose for the use of their land and have their land rezoned to accommodate this type of use. That application then has to go to Planning and Zoning, Architectural Review, the Council; there has to be Public Hearings and then it ultimately has to go to the voters for a referendum vote where all the voters would have to approve the change of zoning from any existing land into this particular zoning district. As a result, there is a requirement for public notifications, publications, notices to people that live in the vicinity or the area or plenty of opportunity for folks to come and voice their objections and their disagreement and to let the Council representatives know that they are against it. And if Council chooses to put it on the ballot anyway, then the voters have the right to campaign against it and to vote against it. If it doesn't get approved by the voters then the land remains zoned as it exists at the time that they applied for the change. Mr. Diemert said that being said, that is the difference between this type of ordinance--which is only creating a District-and an ordinance which rezones a land into a particular use or a different use. Mr. Diemert asked Mr. Samac to outline what this particular ordinance creates in the way of a District. Mr. Samac said most of you have a copy of this proposed Chapter. What I was planning on doing was just briefly running through areas that I feel are important and perhaps answer questions before they are asked. We will certainly entertain any questions and try to answer those questions immediately following my presentation here. Mr. Samac explained the intent of this zoning classification really is to provide opportunities for development in and on parcels of land within the Village that are less desirable (so to speak) than for single-family residential. Under 1151.01 (on page 1 of the proposed classification) it talks about flexibility in Subsection a; in b it talks about the location of this type of development to be used as a transitional use and it is limited to those areas along major arterial and collector streets and not designed by any means for any of our local residential streets. In essence what we are looking at are areas on Wilson Mills Road, S.O.M. Center Road, perhaps White Road, Highland Road, but none of our residential, single-family streets. The intent of this zone classification was brought before Planning Commission because of the needs of some of our population and